MONTEIRO, Millena Cavalcanti.; FARIAS, Maria do Carmo Andrade Duarte de.; SILVA, Karla Maria Duarte.; SILVA, Lynara Alves de Assis.; SOUZA, Marilena Maria de.
Resumen:
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.