[Secular trend in infant deaths by congenital malformations in Argentina (1980-2018)].

Introduction: Congenital malformations (CM) represent the second cause of infant death in Argentina.

Objective: To analyze the secular trend (1980-2018) of infant deaths due to CM at the regional and provincial level.

Material And Methods: The data come from the DEIS (Ministry of Health) and include the absolute number of deaths and live births and deaths by CM coded according to ICD-10 (Codes Q00-Q99).

Microcephaly infant mortality in Brazil before zika outbreak.

Introduction: We present temporal and spatial variation of deaths from microcephaly in children under 1 year of age is analyzed at regional, state, and municipal level in the pre-Zika period in Brazil.

Materials And Methods: Data on births and deaths of infants with microcephaly was obtained from DATASUS from 1996 to 2013. Infant mortality rate from microcephaly (IMR-M) was estimated at Region, Federative Unit (UF), and Municipality level.