title: [Mortality rate of children under 5 years of age proposed by UNICEF: critical analysis of its validity as a health indicator].
abstract: The relationship between the Mortality Rate for children under age 5 as proposed by UNICEF and classical mortality indicators-infant mortality, mortality rates for children under age 1, for age 1 to 4, mortality for children under 5, and the probability of death from birth to 5 years of age, is evaluated. The theoretical equivalence between the rate and 5q0 is shown by means of a Lexis diagram. Practical evaluation is carried out using data from the 24 areas under analysis in the Inter-American Investigation of Mortality in Childhood. Kendall's Correlation shows high agreement between the rate and classical indicators, mainly for the Coefficient for children under 5 and for infant mortality.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Epidemiologia da Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. laurenti@usp.br
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Laurenti
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Santos
mesh_terms: D001719:Birth Certificates; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003644:Death Certificates; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009026:Mortality; D014480:United Nations
vernacular_title: Taxa de mortalidade de menores de 5 anos proposta pela UNICEF: análise crítica de sua validade como indicador de saúde.