title: [Mortality by race/color: evidence of social inequalities in Vitória (ES), Brazil].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze mortality by cause and sex among groups of race or color from the mortality information system (MIS) in Vitória (Brazil), in the period from 2003 to 2006.
  
  
  METHODS
  We calculated and analyzed the mortality rates according to underlying cause, sex and race/color, and the mean and median age of death by underlying cause, sex and race. We calculated the relative risk (RR) for age, sex and underlying cause (p<0.05 and CI 95%).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The completeness of race/color in SIM ranged from 1% in 1996 to 81% in 2006. There was a greater RR of death among blacks for mental and behavioral disorders (RR=9.29), Ill-defined causes (RR=8.71), and external causes (RR=5.71). For black women, we highlight the external causes (RR=2.38). We found a variation of up to 33 years (nervous system) between whites and blacks.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study confirms the existence of unequal racial/ethnic mortality, highlighting the mortality from mental disorders and external causes, in addition to early mortality that occurs in the black population.
authors: Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Vitória, Vitória, ES, Brasil. mdmolina@uol.com.br
authors: Nathalia Modenesi
authors: NM
authors: Fiorio
authors: Luisa Sorio
authors: LS
authors: Flor
authors: Monique
authors: M
authors: Padilha
authors: Denise Silveira
authors: DS
authors: de Castro
authors: Maria Del Carmen Bisi
authors: Mdel C
authors: Molina
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D044383:Black People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality / Q000208:ethnology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult