Journal
MEDICINE
Volume 100, Issue 44, Pages -Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000027118
Keywords
health status indicators; maternal health; maternal mortality; public health; public policy
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- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel -Brazil (CAPES) [001]
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The study analyzed maternal health indicators in Brazil from 2012 to 2017, and found positive changes such as an increase in the number of prenatal consultations, the gestational age of onset of prenatal care, and the number of children being breastfed. These findings suggest an improvement in maternal health status during the study period.
In addition to the maternal death indicator, Stork Network proposes the number of prenatal consultations, the gestational age of onset of prenatal care and the number of children breastfeeding. The study aims to analyze maternal health indicators representative of the actions proposed by Stork Network in Brazil, after its implementation. Therefore, this is an ecological study of maternal health indicators in Brazil from 2012 to 2017. Thus, it was found that the number of prenatal consultations per pregnant woman in Brazil from 2012 to 2017 increased >4 times between the first and the last year analyzed. The proportion of pregnant women who started prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy increased progressively each year in Brazil. The breastfeeding coefficient also increased progressively between 2014 and 2017 in Brazil. It was found that maternal health indicators improved between 2012 and 2017 in the Brazilian territory.
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