[Evaluation of the quality of information: linkage between SIM and SINASC in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco State].

The aim of this study was to investigate the notification of the statement of live birth to Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco State, residents, which died with less than a year of life, through the linkage between the System of Information on Mortality (SIM) and the System of Information on Live Birth (SINASC) in the year of 2004, in order to assess the quality of information. The population of the study was composed by 184 death certificates registered on SIM. Then these death certificates were paired with the respective DNV.

[Intra-urban differentials of the mortality situation in the municipality of Camaragibe: 1999 to 2003].

The epidemiological profile of the populations has changed throughout history and populace spaces. Throughout the years, epidemiologists have studied the changes in the epidemiological profiles of the populations, employing, according to the given health figures, the health of the populations, using specially the mortality data of the information systems in the entire country. Aiming to identify the mortality situation as per sex, age, cause groups and specific death causes in the municipality of Camaragibe, from 1999 to 2003, a descriptive study has been used taking into account the variables presented at SIM (Sistema de Mortalidade).