Publications by authors named "Leticia M Leaes"
Objective: To evaluate the trend of pneumonia mortality in Brazilian children aged 4 years and younger from 1991 to 2007.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective study based on the database of the IT Department of the Brazilian Unified Health System (DATASUS), from which we obtained the number of deaths from pneumonia and the population aged 4 years and younger living in the five Brazilian regions and in the whole country. Mortality rate was calculated according to the number of deaths from pneumonia divided by the population, multiplied by 1,000 for the age group under 1 year old and by 10,000 in the age group from 1 to 4 years.