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 and measurement of adjusted mortality indicators using generalized linear modeling (GLM).

Methods

The 2015 and 2016 CR and SIM data were linked using deterministic methods. GLM with covariates of the deceased's sex, age, state of residence, cause of death and place of death, and municipality-level education decile and population density decile, was used to estimate total deaths and completeness nationally, subnationally and by population sub-group, and to identify the characteristics of u

SUBMITTER: Costa LFL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7650525 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature