Describing mortality trends for major cancer sites in 133 intermediate regions of Brazil and an ecological study of its causes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Brazil, 211 thousand (16.14%) of all death certificates in 2016 identified cancer as the underlying cause of death, and it is expected that around 320 thousand will receive a cancer diagnosis in 2019. We aimed to describe trends of cancer mortality from 1996 to 2016, in 133 intermediate regions of Brazil, and to discuss macro-regional differences of trends by human development and healthcare provision.

Methods

This ecological study assessed georeferenced official data on population and mortality, health spending, and healthcare provision from Brazilian governmental agencies. The regional office of the United Nations Development Program provided data on the Human Development Index in Brazil. Deaths by misclassified or unspecified causes (garbage codes) were redi

SUBMITTER: Bigoni A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6788078 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature