Abstract With the implantation of the Committee for Prevention of childhood Mortality in the State of Paraná, a work has been launched in order to investigate about these deaths. In the 15ᵃ Regional de Saúde of the State, where there is a predominance of precocious mortality for the newborns, the deaths of newborns wuith less than 1.500g represent one third of the infantile deaths in the early months of 1999. Being so a high rate it would be necessary to […]