Early neonatal mortality trend in adolescent pregnant women in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 1996 to 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Infant mortality rate indicates the quality of life of a population. Infant mortality has two important components: neonatal mortality, divided into early and late and post-neonatal mortality. The more developed a country is and the greater its population's well-being, the greater the weight of the neonatal component on infant mortality. In addition several factors may determine or be associated with the occurrence of infant deaths including maternal age. The teenage pregnancy rates in Latin America and the Caribbean remain the second highest in the world, In Brazil, between 2010 and 2015, for every thousand adolescents between 15 and 19 years old, about 69 became pregnant and gave birth to their babies. Thus, the objective of this study is to evaluate the trend of E

SUBMITTER: de Oliveira AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8261576 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature