Quality of information registered on fetal deaths certificates in São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil.

Objective: To evaluate the quality of information registered on fetal death certificates.

Methods: Records were reviewed from 710 fetal deaths registered in the consolidated database of deaths from the State System for Data Analysis and the São Paulo State Secretary of Health, for deaths in São Paulo municipality (Southeastern Brazil) during the first semester of 2008. Completeness was analyzed for variables on fetal death certificates issued by hospitals and autopsy service.

[Early neonatal mortality according to level of hospital complexity in Greater Metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil].

The aim of this study was to analyze the profile of newborns, mothers, and early neonatal mortality according to the hospital's complexity and affiliation (or lack thereof) with the Unified National Health System (SUS) in Greater Metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil. The study was based on data for live births, deaths, and hospital registries. Factor and cluster analysis were used to obtain the typology of hospital complexity and user profile.

Youth map of the city of Santo André, Southeastern Brazil: an instrument to read social inequalities.

Objective: To analyze social inequalities in young adults living in an urban area by mapping sociodemographic and economic data.

Methods: Using data from the 2000 Demographic Census, 57 sociodemographic and economic variables of young adults aged from 15 to 24 years, living in the city of Santo André, Southeastern Brazil, were distributed among 43 areas of statistical data, corresponding to a division of the region into smaller districts. Data from the year 2000 were collected from the Santo André City Hall Department of Socioeconomic Indicators.

[Birth weight intra-urban differentials in the city of São Paulo].

Objective: To identify intra-urban differentials and risk factors in low birth weight prevalence.

Methods: Information was gathered in the live birth declarations made by mothers residing in the city of São Paulo (Southern Brazil), and obtained through the Live Birth Information System and the Seade Foundation, for the period between 2002 and 2003, totaling 388,980 live births. The addresses were georeferenced in census tracts and classified into six vulnerability groups according to the São Paulo State Social Vulnerability Index.