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NEVES, Alice Cristina Medeiros das  y  GARCIA, Leila Posenato. Youth mortality in Brazil: profile and trends in the period 2000-2012. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2015, vol.24, n.4, pp.595-606. ISSN 1679-4974.

OBJECTIVE: to describe and analyze youth (15-29 years of age) mortality trends in Brazil in the period 2000-2012. METHODS: this was an ecological descriptive and time series study conducted with Mortality Information System data; Prais-Winsten linear regression was used to analyze mortality rate trends. RESULTS: 958,224 deaths were registered in the period, 79.6% were male; the overall corrected mortality rates were 1.6 and 1.5 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2000 and 2012, respectively; overall mortality rates showed stationary trends in the period (-0.34%; 95%C1 -1.05;0.37); increasing trends among men were observed in the Northeast (3.08%; 95%C12.56;3.61) and Southern (0.88%; 95%C10.09;1.66) regions; in 2012, external causes accounted for 71.4% of deaths, 79.2% among men and 38.5% among women. CONCLUSION: youth mortality rates were high and stable during the study period; external causes were presented as the main causes of death, in both sexes.

Palabras clave : Young Adult; Mortality; External Causes; Ecological Studies; Temporal Distribution.

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