Infant mortality and sociodemographic conditions in Ceará, Brazil, 1991 and 2000

• Autor(a) principal: Bezerra Filho, José Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Pontes, Lígia Regina Franco Sansigolo Kerr, Miná, Daniel de Lima, Barreto, Maurício Lima
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rsp/article/view/32344
• topic: Infant mortality; Socioeconomic factors; Risk factors; Linear models; Mortalidade infantil; Fatores socioeconômicos; Fatores de risco; Modelos lineares

OBJECTIVE: To assess ecological models to describe infant mortality rate in Ceara (Northeastern Brazil) in two different periods of time. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional ecologic study of two years, 1991 and 2000, using non-matching information per municipalities. Estimates on the infant mortality rate of the Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas Aplicadas (Institute of Applied Economic Research) have been used. For the remaining indicators different sources of the System of Health Information were used. The main risk factors were assessed using multiple linear regression. RESULTS: In 1991, the variables that predicted infant mortality rate (R2=0.3575) were: small houses (beta=0.0043; rho=0.010), proportion of inhabitants with tap water in the household (beta=-0.0029; rho=0.024), urbanization rate (beta=0.0032; rho=0.004), fecundity rate (beta=0.0351; rho=0.024), the proportion of children working at 10-14 years (beta=0.0049; rho=0.017), proportion of families with income < &frac12; minimum wage (beta=0.0056; rho=0.000), that can read and write (beta=-0.0062; rho=0.031). In the year 2000, the following possible determinants were identified (R2=0.3236): the proportion of children