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Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
Print version ISSN 1679-4974On-line version ISSN 2337-9622
Abstract
MINTO, Cátia Martinez; ALENCAR, Gizelton Pereira; ALMEIDA, Marcia Furquim de and SILVA, Zilda Pereira da. Characteristics of the Mortality Information System in municipalities of São Paulo State, Brazil, 2015. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.4, pp.869-880. ISSN 1679-4974. http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/s1679-49742017000400017.
OBJECTIVE:
to describe characteristics of the Mortality Information System (SIM) in municipalities of São Paulo State, in 2015.
METHODS:
descriptive study with data collected through an electronic questionnaire, with questions on the profile of technical managers, human resources and IT structure.
RESULTS:
584/645 municipalities (90.5%) participated; technical managers were mainly women (81.5%), nurses (64.9%), career civil servants (66.1%) and had more than 3 years of work experience with SIM (68.2%); in small-sized municipalities (≤30,000 inhabitants), managers were younger (average age of 37.7 years), were also responsible for other systems (92.4%) and used computers with older operating systems (69.5%); in large-sized municipalities (>200,000 inhabitants), managers were older (average age of 47.1 years) and had higher education level (86.5% with higher education degree), they had fast-access internet (83.8%) and in-house technical support (81.1%).
CONCLUSION:
the technical managers’ profile and availability of technological resources used at SIM were different according to population size of the municipalities.
Keywords : Information systems; Mortality; Cross-Sectional Studies; Human Resources; Information Technology.
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