Time series analysis: trend in late maternal mortality in Brazil, 2010-2019.

To analyze the temporal trend of the late maternal mortality ratio (LMMR) in Brazil and its geographic regions in the period from 2010 to 2019, an ecological time series study was conducted. Data related to late maternal mortality from information systems of the Brazilian Ministry of Health were used. Statistical analysis used Prais-Winsten autoregressive models.

Trends in cesarean section rates in Brazil by Robson classification group, 2014-2020.

Objectives: to evaluate the trends in cesarean sections from 2014 to 2020 across both public and private sectors, utilizing the Robson Classification.

Methods: this time series study analyzed the proportion of women who underwent cesarean sections between 2014 and 2020, considering both the Robson classification and the type of healthcare service. Trend analysis was conducted using the Prais-Winsten regression.

Spatial and trend analysis of gestational syphilis cases in Brazil from 2011 to 2020: an ecological study.

Objectives: To analyze the rate of gestational syphilis (GS) based on temporal trends over 11 years, as well as the spatial distribution of GS in Brazil, based on the identification of spatial clusters.

Methodology: An ecological, using Brazil and its regions as an analysis unit, based on gestational syphilis data reported in the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), from 2011 to 2020. Thematic maps were built for spatial data analysis, and the Prais-Winsten autoregressive model was used to verify the trend.

Evolution of mortality rates among women of reproductive age in Brazilian municipalities: an ecological analysis using Global Burden of Disease estimates.

Objectives: Women's mortality at a reproductive age has been a global concern, and its decrease has been incorporated as a target of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The aim of this study was to describe the spatial-temporal evolution of mortality rates among women of reproductive age in Brazilian municipalities by groups of causes and socioeconomic indicators from 2000 to 2018.

Study Design: Ecological analysis.

The impact of strategies for increasing vaccination coverage in children: A community clinical trial.

The Brazilian National Immunization Program (PNI) has been consolidating itself as one of the most relevant interventions in public health. Paradoxically, great challenges arise for the PNI. The phenomenon of falling vaccine coverage is observed not only in Brazil, but in several countries.

Environmental and individual factors associated with gestational weight gain.

Background: Environmental factors have an impact on inappropriate food choices and sedentary lifestyle, and both individually and in combination these factors favour improper gestational weight gain (GWG) and consequent maternal and neonatal health problems. The objective of this study was to analyze the environmental and individual factors associated with GWG.

Methods: Data were from "Born in Belo Horizonte: Survey on childbirth and birth", a hospital-based retrospective cohort of 506 pregnant women with deliveries in public and private maternity hospitals in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

Trends in fertility rates, proportion of antenatal consultations and caesarean sections among Brazilian adolescents.

Objective: To analyze the temporal trends in the fertility rate, proportion of antenatal consultations and caesarean sections in Brazilian adolescents aged 15 to 19, between 2000 and 2015. Methods: The fertility rate, proportion of prenatal consultations and proportion of routes of birth were calculated using data from DATASUS. The trend analysis was performed using the Prais-Winsten regression model and the annual percentage change.

Association between early pregnant hospitalization and use of obstetric interventions and cesarean: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: Evaluate the association between early pregnant hospitalization and the use of obstetric interventions and cesarean delivery route.

Methods: Cross-sectional study, with 758 women selected at the time of childbirth. It was assumed as early hospitalization when the woman was admitted to the hospital having less than 6 cm of cervical dilation.

Social and obstetric inequalities and vaccination in pregnant women.

Objectives: to analyze the association of socioeconomic level and obstetric characteristics with vaccine registration of pregnant women.

Methods: cross-sectional study, performed with 480 women in puerperal. Vaccination of pregnant women was considered a dependent variable and as independent variables were age, skin color, education, steady union, paid work, and number of prenatal consultations.

Obstetric analgesia in labor and its association with neonatal outcomes.

Objetive: To investigate the association between analgesia during labor and occurrence of neonatal outcomes.

Method: Retrospective cohort study with medical records of 850 parturient. The exposure variable of interest was receiving pharmacological analgesia during labor and neonatal outcomes were: one- and five-minute Apgar, resuscitation maneuvers and referral of the newborn to Neonatal ICU.

Obstetric analgesia in labor and its association with neonatal outcomes.

Objetives: To investigate the association between analgesia during labor and occurrence of neonatal outcomes.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study with medical records of 850 parturient. The exposure variable of interest was receiving pharmacological analgesia during labor and neonatal outcomes were: one- and five-minute Apgar, resuscitation maneuvers and referral of the newborn to Neonatal ICU.

Born in Belo Horizonte: the trajectory of parturient women and their reproductive outcomes.

Objective: To analyze the trajectory taken by pregnant women for delivery care in Belo Horizonte and its relation with the reproductive outcomes.

Method: A cross-sectional study using a database from a study conducted in Belo Horizonte. The studied variables were referent to the trajectory of women seeking delivery care, to their social, demographic and health care characteristics, and to the reproductive outcomes.

The work of nurses in high-risk prenatal care from the perspective of basic human needs.

Objective: To analyze the work of nurses in high-risk prenatal care in secondary care, considering nursing problems and the basic human needs of pregnant women.

Method: Cross-sectional and quantitative study, developed in a high-risk prenatal care clinic. Data were selected in the records of the nursing consultation.

[Multiple causes of maternal mortality related to abortion in Minas Gerais State, Brazil, 2000-2011].

This study aimed to analyze trends in maternal mortality from abortion in Minas Gerais State, Brazil, from 2000 to 2011, addressing multiple causes of death. The analysis focused on women's social and demographic characteristics, year, location, and underlying and associated causes of death. Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) and abortion-specific ratio were calculated for each year, as well as Spearman's correlation coefficient (p < 0.

Perinatal mortality and socio-spatial inequalities.

Objective: To analyze the social inequalities in the distribution of perinatal mortality in Belo Horizonte.

Material And Methods: The perinatal deaths of residents in Belo Horizonte in the period 2003 to 2007 were studied on the basis of the Information Systems on Mortality and Newborns. The space analysis and the Health Vulnerability Index were used to identify existing inequalities in the sanitary districts regarding coverage and risk, determined by the Odds Ratio and a value p<0.

[Trend of perinatal mortality in Belo Horizonte, 1984 to 2005].

The study aimed at to analyze the tendency of the mortality perinatal in the municipal district of Belo Horizonte in the period from 1984 to 2005. The source of the data was the System of Information of Mortality. Took place simple lineal regression to esteem the tendency of reduction of the percentile of unknown information in the system and of the mortality taxes.

[Mortality of malnourished elderly in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil: a multidimensional analysis focusing on multiple causes of death].

This study aimed to identify the mortality profiles of elderly individuals with malnutrition, based on associations between multiple causes of death and other variables recorded on the death certificate. We studied the deaths of elderly (> 60 years) living in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with malnutrition recorded as one of the causes. Data were used from the mortality information system.