Tainara Lôrena dos Santos Ferreira

Evaluation of the Fertility and Mortality in Women at Fertile Age

The female population is passing through many transformations as on the familiar life as for the society. This inequality among the genders reflects on the health, mainly, on the women. The women morbidity and mortality surveillance is one of the priorities of the Health Ministry. This worksheet aims to evaluate the fertile women fertility and mortality, from 10 to 49 years old, in Trairi/RN. It is descriptive, ecological and temporary, whose analysis is based on the Mortality Information System data, in a period of 5 years (2010-2014), at the Vth Public Health Regional Center (URSAP), which embraces the Trairi region, composed by 21 cities, in Rio Grande do Norte. The data processing and analysis were used by the SPSS software. It was observed the mortality coefficient with a decline from 2011 (0.84) and back to increase in 2014 (0.94). This reveals the necessity of better health actions and monitoring from other factors that may interfere on women health.

Evaluation of Child Health by Basic Indicators of Health: Historical Series 2005-2014

The continuous assessment of child health services generates knowledge about the real needs of health services and actions in order to achieve better results and indicators. Thus, this study proposes to analyze child health indicators, based on the information systems of health services. This is a descriptive, ecological epidemiological study carried out using secondary data from the following information systems: Information System on Live Births and Mortality Information System, in a historical series of ten years (2005-2014) of the state of Rio Grande do Norte and its health micro regions. It was observed a decrease in infant, neonatal, preterm, late neonatal and postnatal mortality coefficients when compared to the first and last year of the observed period, as well as the concentration of these in micro-regions of health. There was also a positive association between the early neonatal component and infant death. In this perspective, it is important to evaluate the quality of prenatal care, childbirth, puerperium, the first week of integral health and follow-up of the child’s growth and development, as well as to relate the socio-demographic conditions that may be associated with infant morbimortality. Therefore, the importance of situational health assessment studies for the effectiveness of care provided is highlighted, identifying weaknesses and monitoring the effectiveness of strategies.

Avaliação dos indicadores em saúde das crianças acompanhadas pela pastoral da criança

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the child care profile of the children of Pastoral da Crianca in the city of Lajes Pintadas, state of Rio Grande do Norte. Methods: This is an exploratory-descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative approach. Data were collected from June to August 2013, with a sample of 53 children under the age of five enrolled in the Pastoral da Crianca. Results: It was observed that 100% of the children have the vaccines updated; while 79.3% indicated that children always attended the child care consultation. Conclusion: It is concluded that Pastoral of the Child (Pastoral da Crianca - in Portuguese) contributes to the children’s quality of life and health, considering that they collaborate in the prevention of diseases by encouraging child-care consultations, as well as the search for health services.