title: [Mortality due to Chagas disease in São Paulo State (Brazil): subsidy for the planning of chagasic patient care].
abstract: In order to estimate the size of the population with Chagas' disease, an essential parameter for the establishment of an adequate health care policy for this group of patients, data from 1,646 death certificates from the "Fundação Sistema Estadual de Análises de Dados" in which Chagas' disease was mentioned in the State of S. Paulo in 1987 were examined. The population under study comprised adults between 15 and 70 years of age. Objectives also included the determination of Proportional Mortality, Potentially Lost Years of Life and regional distribution of the events in the counties of the State of S. Paulo. Chagas disease accounted for 0.9% of the totality of the causes of death, Proportional Mortality was 1.2% and the proportional participation of Chagas' disease in the Potentially Lost Years of Life was 1.1%. Corresponding data for Ischemic Heart Disease were, 4.0% and 1.2%. 20.8% of the deaths occurred in counties other than the county of residence, the indexes of evasion varying from 17.8% to 29.1% for different regions. Males (22.8%) more often than females (17.4%) died outside their county of residence. The largest number of deaths occurred in the metropolitan area of S. Paulo, although Ribeirão Preto county presented the highest mortality indexes.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Litvoc
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Wanderley
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Camargo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002423:Cause of Death; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000401:mortality*; D003644:Death Certificates; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012111:Residence Characteristics
vernacular_title: Mortalidade por doença de Chagas no Estado de São Paulo (Brasil): subsídios para o planejamento da assistência ao chagásico.