Surveillance of birth defects: Brazil and the US Vigilância epidemiológica em anomalias congênitas: Brasil e Estados Unidos

The impacts of birth defects in the society have substantially increased over the last decades in countries where the reduction of infant mortality by other causes has occurred. Birth defects surveillance represents an important source of information for planning X health policies and resource alloc...

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Main Authors: Daniela Varela Luquetti, Rosalina Jorge Koifman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2011-01-01
Series:Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232011000700008