ASSISTÊNCIA PRÉ-NATAL NO ESTADO DO MARANHÃO

Abstract

The prenatal assitance enlarges a set of actions which aim to promote the pregnant women s health and the new-born s and also the set of adequated actions to the prevention, the diagnosis and the clinic handing of obstetrical problems which can occvr or of illnesses previovsly ixisting and that can affect the mothers and their children. It was done a descriptive study aiming to analyse the prenatal assistance is the state of Maranhão. The field research was made in the intercourse from July of 2007 to January of 2008, exploring a systematical sample of 2.075 women. It was executed as a comparative referential to the data of the field research. Situation of Health in Maranhão, made sevice years. The results revealed that among women who expressed previous (n= 2075) pregnance, (68,7%), are in the age betqeen 20 and 39 years old, dweel in the urban zone (53,5%), possess stable union (42,16%) the most of them (81,5%) are instructed having more than of scholarship, with minor income of a minimal wage (47%), but 51,8% don t work. 46,8% related the making of 6 consultations emphasizing the prenatal during the first trimestral moment; 63,1% got immvnization and 76,2% used the public SUS to the realization of the prenatal one, being 46% as to the Family s Health strategy, the results point a good coverage of prenatal consultations, but the great matter which this paper touches deals with the mantainance of (low) indexes of maternal health in Maranhão. In spite of the existence of plamnig and implementation of strategies in order to better the indexes of maternal mortality. We have yet grave problems in the organization of the Health s services, and this justifies the systematical realization of knom the reality of the States which respect the specificities.