Maternal mortality in Northeast Brazil
Keywords:
health care, pregnancy, postpartum period, information systems, women's healthAbstract
The objective was to evaluate maternal mortality in Northeast Brazil in the last decade. It consists of a documental, retrospective and descriptive research with secondary data from the Mortality Information System of the Department of Information Technology of the Brazilian Unified Health System, from 2008 to 2017. A total of 5847 deaths were demonstrated in the time period with a slight decline in mortality rates year by year. Regarding the states studied, the highest incidences were in Bahia with 26.24% (n=1534), Maranhão with 18.21% (n=1065) and Pernambuco with 14.50% (n=848). The age group with the highest incidence was 20-29 years with 40.91% (n=2392) of deaths. The brown race and low schooling were significantly declared. Regarding causes, diseases related to pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium covered 98.58% (n=5764) of the cases. Under this bias, gestational hypertension, eclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage and uterine contraction abnormalities were highlighted. Therefore, it is inferred that maternal mortality indicators point to regional inequalities, being indicated the improvement of health assistance to pregnant women during prenatal, childbirth and puerperium in order to minimize the maternal-infantile northeastern problems.
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