Case-control study on infant mortality in Southern Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Karina Giane
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Olinto, Maria Teresa Anselmo, Costa, Juvenal Soares Dias da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rsp/article/view/32027
• topic: Mortalidade infantil; Mortalidade neonatal^i2^ssaúde públ; Cuidado pré-natal; Fatores de risco; Parto; Epidemiologia descritiva; Infant mortality; Neonatal mortality^i1^spublic hea; Prenatal care; Risk factors; Parturition; Epidemiology; descriptive

OBJECTIVE: To identify risk factors associated with infant mortality and, more specifically, with neonatal mortality. METHODS: A case-control study was carried out in the municipality of Caxias do Sul, Southern Brazil. Characteristics of prenatal care and causes of mortality were assessed for all live births in the 2001-2002 period with a completed live-birth certificate and whose mothers lived in the municipality. Cases were defined as all deaths within the first year of life. As controls, there were selected the two children born immediately after each case in the same hospital, who were of the same sex, and did not die within their first year of life. Multivariate analysis was performed using conditional logistic regression. RESULTS: There was a reduction in infant mortality, the greatest reduction was observed in the post-neonatal period. The variables gestational age (