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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 2.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemics. 2021 Feb 20;35:100443. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2021.100443

Table 1.

Data description and sources.

Variable Description Data Source
TB Treatment Initiations TB case records, minus post-mortem diagnoses, misdiagnoses of TB, and individuals reentering treatment after presumed loss to follow-up, by territory and year. SINAN-TB Oliveira et al. 2016
TB Deaths Number of deaths with a TB-related ICD-10 code as a primary or secondary cause, by territory and year. SIM Ministério da Saúde (2019)
TB Deaths After Notification in SINAN Notified TB cases with “death” as the recorded treatment outcome. SINAN-TB
Population Population estimates by territory and year. Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) Instituto Brasileiro De Geografia E Estatística 2018
Primary Care Access Number of Family Health Teams per 4 000 people, by territory and year. One team per 4 000 population represents target coverage level; (Andrade et al., 2018) if coverage was greater than 100 %, territories were assigned a value of 100 %. Health Informatics, Brazilian Ministry of Health (DATASUS) Ministério da Saúde 2018
GDP Per Capita Economic value of goods produced, by territory and year. Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
Deaths from a Poorly Defined Cause Percentage of deaths for which the primary cause of death is listed with a chapter XVIII ICD-10 code by territory and year. Health Informatics, Brazilian Ministry of Health (DATASUS)
Mortality System Coverage Estimate for the fraction of total deaths that are recorded in SIM, by territory. Queiroz et al. (2017), Schmertmann and Gonzaga 2018