Estimating completeness of national and subnational death reporting in Brazil: application of record linkage methods

Estimating completeness of national and subnational death reporting in Brazil: application of record linkage methods

Abstract Background In Brazil, both the Civil Registry (CR) and Ministry of Health (MoH) Mortality Information System (SIM) are sources of routine mortality data, but neither is 100% complete. Deaths from these two sources can be linked to facilitate estimation of completeness of mortality reporting...

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Main Authors: Luiz Fernando Lima Costa, Marli de Mesquita Silva Montenegro, Dacio de Lyra Rabello Neto, Antonio Tadeu Ribeiro de Oliveira, Jose Eduardo de Oliveira Trindade, Tim Adair, Maria de Fatima Marinho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
Subjects:
Mortality
Registration completeness
Record linkage
Capture-recapture methods
Generalized linear modeling
Civil registration and vital statistics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12963-020-00223-2

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