Can the primary health care model affect the determinants of neonatal, post-neonatal and maternal mortality? A study from Brazil

Table 1 General characteristics of the cities of São Paulo in 2013 (n = 645)

Variable	Mean	Std Dev	Median	Minimum	Maximum
IMR^a Neo	7.79	9.98	6.37	0.00	142.86
IMR Post neo^b	3.87	7.17	1.44	0.00	71.43
MMR^c	0.44	1.75	0.00	0.00	20.41
IMR (neo + post)^d	11.83	13.66	10.21	0.00	214.29
Population	65,588.67	462,445.98	12,687.00	807.00	11,446,275.00
GDP^e	22,624.60	18,527.99	18,054.66	7232.60	283,589.47
HDI^f (Value)	0.74	0.03	0.74	0.64	0.86
FHS^g (Implanted)	5.72	37.86	2.00	0.00	938.00
Starting time FHS^g	115.40	67.83	148.00	0.00	189.00
Latest time FHS^g	42.88	52.73	17.00	0.00	186.00
FHS^g proportion	55.42	39.40	61.37	0.00	100.00
ACS^h proportion	62.92	38.47	75.93	0.00	100.00
Natality	13.39	10.57	12.72	0.97	223.71
Caesarean rate	69.56	14.57	70.59	26.09	100.00
Living child	1.23	1.60	0.82	0.00	11.76
Vaccination coverage	74.78	19.78	72.22	17.75	257.50

^aIMR Neo Infant Mortality Rate Neonatal - Number of deaths in the age of 0 to 27 days per thousand live births
^bIMR Post neo- Mortality rate Post neonatal: Number of deaths in the age of 28 days to less than 1 year per thousand live births
^cMMR Maternal mortality rate: number of deaths of women, due to pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium, number of live births of resident mothers times 1000
^dIMR (neo + post) ⁴ - This represented the sum of the neonatal mortality rate and the post-neonatal mortality rate
^eGDP Gross domestic product
^fHDI Human development index
^gFHS Family Health Care Strategy Estimates of the proportion of the population covered by the FHS were obtained through the criterion of one team for every 3450 people
^hACS Community Health Agent - Data on the estimate of the proportion of the population covered were obtained by the criterion of one ACS for every 575 persons

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