Neonatal mortality rates in Brazilian municipalities: from 1996 to 2017

Neonatal mortality rate

Time series data

Brazilian municipalities

Authors

Lais Baroni

Rebecca Sales

Samella Sales

Marcel Pedroso

Jefferson Lima

Igor Morais

Lucas Carraro

Raphael Saldanha

Carlos Sousa

Carlos Cardoso

Balthazar Paixão

Sérgio Cruz

Eduardo Ogasawara

Patricia Boccolini

Cristiano Boccolini

Published

September 1, 2021

Reference

BARONI, L. et al. Neonatal mortality rates in Brazilian municipalities: From 1996 to 2017. BMC Research Notes, v. 14, n. 1, p. 55, Feb. 2021.

Abstract

Neonatal mortality is a global public health problem, and the efforts to reduce child mortality is one of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, launched in 2015 by the United Nations. The availability of historical neonatal mortality rates (NMR) data in Brazilian municipalities is crucial to evaluate trends at local, regional and national level, identifying gaps and vulnerable territories. Therefore, the objective of this article is to offer an integrated dataset containing monthly data in a historical series from 1996 to 2017 with information on all births, neonatal deaths, and NMR (total, early and late components) enriched with information related to the municipality.