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Excess Mortality due to natural causes among whites and blacks during the COVID...
Teixeira,Renato Azeredo; Vasconcelos,Ana Maria Nogales; Torens,Ana; França,Elisabeth Barboza; Ishitani,Lenice; Bierrenbach,Ana LuizaAbstract INTRODUCTION: Excess Mortality by all causes considers deaths directly related to COVID-19 and those attributed to conditions caused by the pandemic. When stratified by social dimensions, such as race/color, it allows for the evaluation of more vulnerable populations. The study estimated the excess mortality by natural causes, separating the white and black populations in 2020. METHODS Public civil reg...
Ill-defined causes of death in Brazil: a redistribution method based on the inv...
França,Elisabeth; Teixeira,Renato; Ishitani,Lenice; Duncan,Bruce Bartholow; Cortez-Escalante,Juan José; Morais Neto,Otaliba Libânio deOBJECTIVE To propose a method of redistributing ill-defined causes of death (IDCD) based on the investigation of such causes.METHODS In 2010, an evaluation of the results of investigating the causes of death classified as IDCD in accordance with chapter 18 of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) by the Mortality Information System was performed. The redistribution coefficients were calculated a...