Indicadores de saúde da população infantil atendida pela atenção básica no Estado do Maranhão

Abstract

Health indicators are tools important for measuring a reality, a management avaliation and planning of the health actions in the swiral áreas. Among the more used health indicators to monitor the child health. However, in Maranhao are scarce existing information on child health and information about health conditions indicators and health dimensions of the child population and performance of the health system The general goal was to analyse child health indicators among little boys of Five years old dwelling in the State of Maranhão attended by the Bassic Attention. It deals with observational, descriptive, study, also under a quantitative approach, performed based on the SIAB reports. As to the demographical indicators there was reduction anridst all the child groups and increase of the age group of adults of 60 years old. The socio-environmental indicators showed that 34,8% of the registered families in the basic attention use water wittout any care. Only 6% of the family had a drain system in 2013. The operational indicators showed na increase of babies of four months year old under breastfeeding exclusive, with are increase of little boys under uptodate vaccines reaching. Among the related epidemiological indicators as to the morbity there was na increase in the proportion of children under low weight at birth. A stressed fall in the proportion of little boys under malnutrition. Among the epidemiological indicators there was a fall in the infantile general mortality and from all its components with supremacy of the postneonatal component. As to the infantile mortality by health macroregional, the Coroatá end Pinheiro macroregional presented infantily mortality rate superior to that one met in the State. The expansion of the population cover in Maranhão shoewed na increase of access of the infantule population towards the health service, so contribting to bether health conditions.