Caracterização de mães atendidas no município de Cajazeiras, Paraíba, a partir da declaração de nascido vivo (2007).

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the profile of the mothers met in the city of Cajazeiras in the year 2007 to verify the incidence of pregnancy according to the age in the year studied. It was used as source of the Born Alive Declaration (BAD). To determine this profile, it is statistically correlated to maternal age in place, occupation, marital status, obstetric history, number of prenatal visits, and weight of the newborn. The data showed that 830 of us investigated 14.7% were teenagers, 78.6% adults and young and 6.7% adults. There was statistical significance between the variable and maternal age: occupation, marital status and obstetric history, and the level of significance between maternal education and number of prenatal visits, and between maternal education and obstetric history. It concludes then that the Born Alive Declaration is a rich source of data and of great importance for the epidemiology of the health care of women and children, should be encouraged correct its completion, so that the data are reliable and enabling actions to promote health of the pregnant woman and newborn.