Impact of continuing education on maternal and child health indicators.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study investigated whether the presence of care workers who completed a specialization course on family health was associated with improved care and maternal and child health indicators in municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

Methods

Negative binomial regression models with fixed effects were used for the 79 municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, with repeated observations for the period 2009-2015. For our reference, the parameter "number of professionals who completed the course" calculated the proportion of professionals who completed the course, and was divided by the total number of primary health care professionals in the municipality to create a ratio. The cutoff points used represented tertile distribution: T3: high (0.

SUBMITTER: do Nascimento DDG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7319283 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature