Abstract Objectives: to describe the trend of preventable neonatal mortality due interventions by Unified Health System in Brazil from 2000 2018, according groups causes death and maternal residence. Methods: mixed ecological study with data Mortality Information on Live Births. The analysis occurred based number rates avoidable mortality, polynomial regression models least squares method thema...

Influenza (commonly called flu) and pneumonia are infectious respiratory diseases that are vaccine-preventable. Yet together they represented the ninth leading causes of death in the United States among all ages in 2010. During the same year, influenza and pneumonia represented the seventh leading causes of death among people age 65 and older. In fact, more than 85 percent of flu and pneumonia ...

Little is known about the specific causes of neonatal and under-five childhood death in high-mortality geographic regions due to a lack of primary data and dependence on inaccurate tools, such as verbal autopsy. To meet the ambitious new Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 to eliminate preventable child mortality in every country, better approaches are needed to precisely determine specific causes...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to review a series of deaths by trauma in a large metropolis. The intention is to identify preventable causes of death. METHODS We prospectively studied 500 unselected and consecutive cases of death associated with trauma. The study variables were: mechanism of injury, etiology, site of injury, surgical intervention, medical malpractice, damaged organs and the preven...

Background Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability in England and Wales, with 16,000 injury deaths per year. High estimates of preventable death rates have renewed the impetus for national regionalisation of major trauma to specialist centres. We hypothesized that the institution of a specialist multidisciplinary trauma service and performance improvement programme had resulted in sig...

Belfast: A Report of two years' experience at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children By 0. D. FISHER, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.C.B. Department of Child Health, Queen's University of Belfast, and the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children ACCIDENTAL poisoning by ingestion of toxic substances, especially medicaments, is a notable but preventable cause of death in young children. Swinscow (1953) ...

Tobacco continues to be the leading cause of preventable death and illness in the United States and the world (World Health Organization, 2011). In addition, tobacco is responsible for one in three cancer deaths in the United States (American Cancer Society, 2015). Prevention of tobacco-related disease, disability, and death could be achieved by promoting tobacco control (i.e., preventing uptak...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Infant mortality is an indicator of overall societal health, and a significant proportion of infant deaths occur in NICUs. The objectives were to identify causes of death and to define potentially preventable factors associated with death as areas for quality improvement efforts in the NICU. METHODS In a prospectively defined study, the principal investigator in 46 l...

OBJECTIVES Death in low-risk cardiac surgical patients provides a simple and accessible method by which modifiable causes of death can be identified. In the first FIASCO study published in 2009, local potentially modifiable causes of preventable death in low-risk patients with a logistic EuroSCORE of 0-2 undergoing cardiac surgery were inadequate myocardial protection and lack of clarity in the...

UNLABELLED Despite the large reduction in SIDS mortality, which occurred in the early 1990s following the 'Back to Sleep' campaigns, SIDS remains the leading cause of death in the postneonatal age group. This paper describes the position in the 1980s, the contribution of the New Zealand Cot Death Study, what should be recommended and the current research priorities. CONCLUSION SIDS is prevent...