Mortality in the Americas from 2013 to 2015 resulting from diseases, conditions and injuries which are 100% alcohol-attributable.

Aims: To describe mortality in the Americas from 2013 to 2015 inclusive resulting from diseases, conditions and injuries which are 100% attributable to alcohol consumption.

Design And Setting: Mortality registry, population-based study. The data come from 30 of the 35 countries of the Americas for the triennium of 2013 to 2015.

Profile of cases due to burn attended in emergency care units in Brazilian capitals in 2017.

Objectives: To describe the profile of burn victims attended in emergency services and to identify associations between the variables investigated.

Methods: Cross-sectional study based on data from the 2017 survey "Surveillance of violence and accidents in emergency units". We used descriptive analysis, according to demographic characteristics and aspects related to the burn injury, as well as the correspondence analysis technique, which allowed to verify possible associations between the variables investigated.

Trends in mortality rates where alcohol was a necessary cause of death in Brazil, 2000-2013.

Objective: To analyze trends in mortality due to diseases and conditions fully attributable to alcohol in Brazil.

Methods: This was an ecological time-series study. Proportional, specific, and age-standardized mortality rates between 2000 and 2013 that were due to underlying or contributing causes fully attributable to alcohol use were analyzed by sex, ethnicity/skin color, age group, and region of residence in the country.

[Alcohol use as a necessary cause of death in Brazil, 2010-2012].

Objective: To describe mortality from diseases, conditions, and injuries for which alcohol consumption is a necessary cause during the 2010-2012 triennium in Brazil.

Methods: A descriptive study was conducted with data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health's Mortality Information System (SIM). The analysis included deaths whose primary cause was classified as any of the 78 codes of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) corresponding to the diseases, conditions, and injuries for which the use of alcohol is a necessary cause.

Mortality due to cardiovascular diseases in the Americas by region, 2000-2009.

Context And Objective: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. The aim here was to evaluate trends in mortality due to cardiovascular diseases in three different regions of the Americas.

Design And Setting: This was a time series study in which mortality data from three different regions in the Americas from 2000 to the latest year available were analyzed.

Mortality from diseases, conditions and injuries where alcohol is a necessary cause in the Americas, 2007-09.

Aims: To describe mortality from diseases, conditions and injuries where alcohol was a necessary cause in selected countries in the Americas.

Design: A descriptive, population-based study.

Setting: The data come from 16 countries in North, Central and South America for the triennium 2007-09 (latest available data).

Trends in mortality from respiratory disease in Latin America since 1998 and the impact of the 2009 influenza pandemic.

Objective: To determine trends in mortality from respiratory disease in several areas of Latin America between 1998 and 2009.

Methods: The numbers of deaths attributed to respiratory disease between 1998 and 2009 were extracted from mortality data from Argentina, southern Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and Paraguay. Robust linear models were then fitted to the rates of mortality from respiratory disease recorded between 2003 and 2009.

Child and adolescent abuse in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, 2009.

Objective: To describe the profile of the reports of child and adolescent abuse in the state of São Paulo in 2009, and to analyze possible associated factors.

Methods: A total of 4,085 reports regarding children and adolescents younger than 15 years recorded by the Domestic, Sexual, and Other Interpersonal Violence Surveillance System (Sistema de Vigilância de Violência Doméstica, Sexual e Outras Violências Interpessoais - VIVA) were analyzed using a logistic regression model.

Results: The females comprised 61.

[Homicides in the Americas region: magnitude, distribution and trends, 1999-2009].

The scope of this study was to describe the magnitude and distribution of deaths by homicide in the Americas and to analyze the prevailing trends. Deaths by homicide (X85 to Y09 and Y35) were analyzed in 32 countries of the Americas Region from 1999 to 2009, recorded in the Mortality Information System/Pan American Health Organization. A negative binomial model was used to study the trends.

Cardiovascular disease mortality in the Americas: current trends and disparities.

Objective: To describe the current situation and trends in mortality due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the Americas and explore their association with economic indicators.

Design And Setting: This time series study analysed mortality data from 21 countries in the region of the Americas from 2000 to the latest available year.

Main Outcomes Measures: Age-adjusted death rates, annual variation in death rates.

[Public hospital emergency department visits due to burns in Brazil, 2009].

The objective was to analyze the characteristics of burn injuries treated in emergency departments (ED) and associated factors. This was a cross-sectional study of 761 ED visits collected through the National Injury Surveillance System in 2009. The majority of patients were males (58.

The characteristics and factors of emergency service visits for falls.

Objective: To analyze the characteristics of visits to the emergency services that result from falls and to identify the factors associated with these visits.

Method: A cross-sectional study of 12,617 visits that resulted from falls, recorded in the National Injury Surveillance System, was carried out. The data were collected in 23 Brazilian capitals and the Federal District between September and November 2009 using cluster sampling.

[The importance of falls on the same level among the elderly in São Paulo state].

Objective: To analyze characteristics of fall related injuries, with emphasis on falls on the same level, of those with 60 years or more of age,, resident in the state of Sao Paulo, based on three official information sources.

Methods: A total of 1,328 deaths registered in the Information Mortality System in 2007, 20,726 hospital admissions registered in the Hospitalization Information System in 2008 and 359 visits to 24 different emergency departments (ED) in 2007 were analyzed. A logistic regression model was used to test associations between some variables.

[Unintentional injuries at the Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System--Brazil, 2006].

In 2006, the Brazilian Ministry of Health established the Injury Surveillance System Network in Sentinel Services (Rede VIVA) to describe data on injuries victims treated at emergency departments (ED), especially minor injuries which do not cause deaths and hospitalization. This study describes the characteristics of unintentional injuries victims treated in these EDs by means of a transversal descriptive study with data coming from EDs located in 35 municipalities with the highest injury rates. The data were collected during 30 consecutive days in an alternated 12-hour shift.

[Land transport injuries among emergency department visits in the state of São Paulo, in 2005].

Objective: To analyze the characteristics of visits resulting from land transport injuries.

Methods: A total of 5,934 visits in four hospital emergency departments (ED) were analyzed, in the state of São Paulo, in 2005. A questionnaire based on the following three models was used to collect data: World Health Organization (WHO), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

Violence-related injury in emergency departments in Brazil.

Objective: This article describes the characteristics of violence-related injury (VRI) cases presenting at emergency departments (EDs) in Brazil and compares circumstances for assault-related and self-inflicted cases.

Methods: The study is cross-sectional. The data describe cases seen in September 2006 in 62 EDs, representing all 26 states and the Federal District.

[Treatment of injuries in emergency departments: characteristics of victims and place of injury, São Paulo State, Brazil, 2005].

The objective of this study was to analyze the characteristics and place of occurrence of injuries treated in emergency departments. A total of 35,107 emergency department visits for injuries were analyzed, excluding traffic injuries, in São Paulo State, Brazil, 2005. The majority of victims were male (59.

The burden of injury in Brazil, 2003.

Context And Objective: Since 1980, injuries have been the second biggest cause of death among the Brazilian population. This study aimed to analyze national data on fatal injuries and nonfatal injury hospitalization in Brazil, for 2003.

Design And Setting: This was a population-based descriptive study, Brazil, 2003.

[Linking of information from health and security databases on homicides].

Objective: Increased homicide rates in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the last two decades points out to the need for better understanding this subject. The purpose of the present study was to link information about homicide from different sources of data.

Methods: Homicide data from death certificates, medical examiners and police records of residents in the city of Sao Paulo was linked for the second semester of 2001.

[Social inequality and homicide rates in Sao Paulo City, Brazil].

Objective: The relation between income and mortality due to violence has been studied in recent years. The Synthesis of Social Indicators of 2002 [Sintese de Indicadores Sociais, 2002], published by The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), states that one of the most outstanding characteristic of Brazilian society is inequality. The proposal of this ecological study was to test the association between homicide rates, and some health and socioeconomic indicators.

[Morbidity and mortality from external causes in Brazil, 2000].

Since the early 1980s, external causes have been the second greatest cause of death in Brazil. They also place a growing demand on health care services. The current study analyzes morbidity and mortality from external causes in Brazil.

[Injury among the elderly: the challenge to integrate preventive activities in public and individual levels].

Background: In Brazil and all over the world the elderly are increasing as a result of the raise in life expectancy. This group still faces a significant risk for some diseases as well as injuries. The proposal of this study was to describe fatal and nonfatal injuries among people aged 60 years and older in Brazil.