A study of the basic cause of death in children under 15, during 1982, in Children Hospital (Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil)

Authors

  • Geni Machado Strozzi Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • João Bosco Strozzi Secretaria da Saúde do Estado de Santa Catarina; Unidade de Documentação e Informática da Saúde
  • Maria de Lourdes de Souza Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Centro de Ciências da Saúde; Departamento de Saúde Pública
  • Mauro Duarte Schutel Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Centro de Ciências da Saúde; Departamento de Pediatria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89101985000200003

Keywords:

Mortality, Death certificates, Death^i2^scau

Abstract

Death certificates were analysed according to the basic cause of death. Out of the total number of deaths which had occured in Children Hospital (Florianópolis, SC, Brazil), 161 were considered valid for the purpose of this study. With the information obtained from the respective hospital file, the death certificates were filled out again, and then compared to the original ones. Agreement was observed in 60.2% of cases between the original death certificates and the re-filled ones, and Congenital Malformations gave the highest percentage of agreement (92.0). When frequency distribution by cause of death was studied in the original death certificates, the highest percentage appeared to be Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (21.0) and of those Enteritis accounted for 43,2%.

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Published

1985-04-01

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 2 (1985)

Section

Original Articles

How to Cite

Strozzi, G. M., Strozzi, J. B., Souza, M. de L. de, & Schutel, M. D. (1985). A study of the basic cause of death in children under 15, during 1982, in Children Hospital (Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil) . Revista De Saúde Pública, 19(2), 123-132. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89101985000200003