Trends in mortality from ill-defined causes among the elderly in Brazil, 1979-2013: ecological study.

Context And Objective:: Mortality measurements are traditionally used as health indicators and are useful in describing a population's health situation through reporting injuries that lead to death. The aim here was to analyze the temporal trend of proportional mortality from ill-defined causes (IDCs) among the elderly in Brazil from 1979 to 2013.

Design And Setting:: Ecological study using data from the Mortality Information System of the Brazilian Ministry of Health.

[Teenage motherhood and fatherhood: observations in three cities of Brazil].

This study describes young people from 18 to 24 years of age who experienced motherhood and fatherhood. The data are from a multi-center study (the GRAVAD Research Project) conducted in the Brazilian cities of Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador through a household survey with a three-stage stratified probabilistic sample. Among a total of 4,634 interviewees, 17.