1. Profile of maternal mortality in the State of Ceará.
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Rodrigues Afonso, Lucélia, Santos de Castro, Victor Hugo, da Silva Ribeiro Menezes, Cláudia Patrícia, Lopes Custódio, Lívia, Carlos da Silva, Marcelo Gurgel, and Verde Gomes, Ilvana Lima
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MATERNAL mortality , *WOMEN in higher education , *DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory) , *AGE groups , *MARITAL status - Abstract
Objectives: evaluate maternal mortality from January 2019 to January 2020 in the state of Ceará. Methods: this is a descriptive and retrospective ecological study. Data collection was carried out from October to November 2020, considering the time interval from January 2019 to January 2020, through information registered in a public domain database in the State of Ceará, Brazil. The variables considered to outline the profile of maternal deaths were: age group, causes, marital status, color/race and education. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics by frequency distribution and presented through tables. Results: 135 maternal deaths were registered, considering external, direct (most prevalent), indirect and late causes. The maternal mortality ratio in Ceará was 60.43%, whose profile of deaths was characterized by women with incomplete higher education (41.5%), brown (80%), in their 20-29 years (43%) and single (66.7%). Conclusion: the information in this study is extremely importance, as it allows the understanding of a key population, women, in addition to assisting in the design of strategies for coping with maternal mortality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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