CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERNAL MORTALITY IN A HEALTH REGION OF INLAND MINAS GERAIS.

Objective: to conduct a survey of the epidemiological, care and causal profile of maternal mortality in the cities of geographical coverage of a Regional Health Superintendence located in inland Minas Gerais in the period from 2004 to 2018. Method: descriptive, quantitative observational epidemiological study with data analysis obtained from the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System, Death Certificates and Maternal Death Investigation Forms. Results: of the 19 maternal deaths analyzed, 8 (42.10%) were women aged 20 to 29 years, white, married, with 8 to 11 years of schooling. Deaths occurred in hospital institutions (100.00%), highlighting direct obstetric maternal death (89.47%) with obstetric embolism as the cause (21.05%). Conclusion: the maternal deaths studied are more related to quality and full access to existing points of care in the maternal-child care network than to the aspects of social vulnerabilities investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]