Perfil dos óbitos de crianças com menos de um ano de idade, residentes em Santa Cruz do Sul.

Abstract

This cross - sectional, descriptive, documentary research study had the general objective of analyzing the characteristics of the deaths of children under one year old residing in Santa Cruz do Sul from 2013 to 2016, based on the analysis of the Investigation Data Sheets Of Infant Death and Fetal Deaths in children under one year of age residing in this city and based on the analysis of the information available in the BI (Business Intelligence) Portal profiles Municipal Manager and State Manager, related to infant mortality. Researchers were newborns and children who died before they were one year old. The data collection was performed by the researcher from the available records and the data were systematized and analyzed in SPSS v 20.0 statistical software. The main results refer to a coefficient of infant mortality of 9.79 per thousand live births in this period, below the state goal; Mean maternal age and higher prevalences outside the ranges considered as risk; Good level of education in most cases and excellent results related to the accomplishment of prenatal and early onset of it. Regarding the cases of death, a higher prevalence of male infant deaths was observed in white, preterm, and extremely low birth weight infants. The main causes of death were prematurity, followed by congenital malformations and infection, following the national pattern. It was noticed that some characteristics resemble results found by other authors, mainly in relation to the results of the South region, in general, besides a need to deepen the quality of prenatal care and the comparison with the data on cases of live births that did not evolve to death.