Characteristics of the Mortality Information System in municipalities of São Paulo State, Brazil, 2015*

Minto, Cátia Martinez; Alencar, Gizelton Pereira; Almeida, Marcia Furquim de; Silva, Zilda Pereira da

doi:10.5123/S1679-49742017000400017

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Original article • Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde 26 (4) • Oct-Dec 2017 • https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000400017 linkcopy

Characteristics of the Mortality Information System in municipalities of São Paulo State, Brazil, 2015^*

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Abstract

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

Size of municipalities (Number of inhabitants)	Respondent municipalities			Deaths per occurrence
Size of municipalities (Number of inhabitants)	N	%	N	%	Minimum - Maximum ^a	Mean^a
Up to 30,000	406	69.5	16,270	5.9	0 - 824	40.4
From 30,001 to 200,000	141	24.1	72,985	26.3	57 - 2,708	493.2
Over 200,000^a	37	6.3	188,166	67.8	690 - 8,777	2,847.90
Total	584	100.0	277,421	100.0	0 - 86,150	475.0

Variables	Municipality size (number of inhabitants)						Total
	Up to 30,000		From 30,001 to 200,000		Over 200,000
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Sex^a	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
Male	80	19.7	19	13.5	9	24.3	108	18.5
Female	326	80.3	122	86.5	28	75.7	476	81.5
Age ^b (in years)	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
Less than 40	258	63.5	68	48.2	10	27.0	336	57.5
40 to 49	92	22.7	36	25.5	10	27.0	138	23.6
50 or over	56	13.8	37	26.2	17	45.9	110	18.8
Education level ^c	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
Less than higher education degree	87	21.4	31	22.0	5	13.5	123	21.1
Higher Education degree	319	78.6	110	78.0	32	86.5	461	78.9
Academic degree ^d	231	100.0	84	100.0	24	100.0	339	100.0
Nursing	164	71.0	46	54.8	10	41.7	220	64.9
Administration	9	3.9	2	2.4	3	12.5	14	4.1
Medicine	1	0.4	5	6.0	5	20.8	11	3.2
Biology/Biologic Sciences	3	1.3	3	3.6	1	4.2	7	2.1
Informations Systems/Computer Sciences/Computing	5	2.2	2	2.4	-	-	7	2.1
Pedagogy	5	2.2	-	-	1	4.2	6	1.8
Others	44	19.0	26	31.0	4	16.7	74	21.8

Variables	Municipality size (number of inhabitants)						Total
	Up to 30,000		From 30,001 to 200,000		Over 200,000
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Employment relationship^a	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
Career civil servant	264	65.0	92	65.2	30	81.1	386	66.1
CLT employee	102	25.1	34	24.1	4	10.8	140	24.0
Commissioned position	30	7.4	13	9.2	3	8.1	46	7.9
Others	10	2.5	2	1.4	-	-	12	2.1
Position ^b	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
Director/Coordinator/Supervisor	162	39.9	61	43.3	15	40.5	238	40.8
Technical Assistant/IT Technician or similar	26	6.4	15	10.6	7	18.9	48	8.2
Typist/Administrative Assistant or similar	99	24.4	28	19.9	5	13.5	132	22.6
Other	114	28.1	35	24.8	9	24.3	158	27.1
Length of time working in the Health area ^c	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
Less than 3 years	52	12.8	12	8.5	1	2.7	65	11.1
3 years or more	354	87.2	129	91.5	36	97.3	519	88.9
Time of work at SIM ^d	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
Less than 3 years	137	33.7	39	27.7	10	27.0	186	31.8
3 years or more	269	66.3	102	72.3	27	73.0	398	68.2
Responsibility with other information systems ^e	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
No	31	7.6	39	27.7	25	67.6	95	16.3
Yes	375	92.4	102	72.3	12	32.4	489	83.7

Variables	Municipality size (number of inhabitants)						Total
	Up to 30,000		From 30,001 to 200,000		Over 200,000
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Number of employees at SIM team^a,b	405	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	583	100.0
1	124	30.5	17	12.1	4	10.8	145	24.8
2	221	54.4	71	50.4	8	21.6	300	51.4
3	48	11.8	38	27.0	7	18.9	93	15.9
4 or over	12	3.0	15	10.6	18	48.6	45	7.7
Number of computers ^b	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
0	1	0.2	-	-	-	-	1	0.2
1	396	97.5	127	90.1	15	40.5	538	92.1
2 to 3	9	2.2	13	9.2	9	24.3	31	5.3
4 or over	-	-	1	0.7	13	35.1	14	2.4
Operating system ^c	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
Windows XP	282	69.5	100	70.9	17	45.9	399	68.3
Windows 7	73	18.0	32	22.7	12	32.4	117	20.0
Windows 8	8	2.0	4	2.8	2	5.4	14	2.4
Others	2	0.5	-	-	2	5.4	4	0.7
Unknown	41	10.1	5	3.5	4	10.8	50	8.6
Internet access ^d	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
No	10	2.5	1	0.7	1	2.7	12	2.1
Yes, dialed access	15	3.7	2	1.4	-	-	17	2.9
Yes, radio access	87	21.4	29	20.6	5	13.5	121	20.7
Yes, fast-access	294	72.4	109	77.3	31	83.8	434	74.3
Technical support ^b	406	100.0	141	100.0	37	100.0	584	100.0
No	29	7.1	7	5.0	1	2.7	37	6.3
Yes, in-house service	217	53.4	114	80.9	30	81.1	361	61.8
Yes, outsourced service	160	39.4	20	14.2	6	16.2	186	31.8

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[TFN6] a) To calculate average and range in the group of municipalities with more than 200 thousand inhabitants, the municipality of São Paulo was excluded (86,150 deaths).