Resumo

TAVARES, Luis Fernando Barbosa  e  ADAMSON-MACEDO, Elvidina N.. Child mortality remains a serious public health problem. J. Hum. Growth Dev. [online]. 2023, vol.33, n.1, pp.6-9.  Epub 06-Dez-2024. ISSN 0104-1282.  https://doi.org/10.36311/jhgd.v33.14383.

The identification of factors related to infant deaths can help in the planning of public health actions for the restructuring and improvement of maternal and child care, with a view to reducing infant mortality. The variables related to infant mortality continue to be incident in males, in those of brown color, with birth weight below normal and children of young mothers. Furthermore, the infant mortality rate in the first year of life among the Yanomami population reached 114.3 per thousand births in 2020, ten times the infant mortality rate recorded in other corners of Brazil. Actions with technical and financial investment throughout prenatal care with a complete care network and strengthening childcare services for children by the Primary Care network at municipal level are necessary and urgent strategies to reduce the drama of preventable deaths of children in the first year of life. life.

Palavras-chave : risk factors; low birth weight newborn; maternal age; perinatal care.

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