Redução da taxa de mortalidade infantil do Município de Guarujá a partir de um esforço intersetorial e da responsabilização de cada ponto da rede de saúde

Abstract

The Infant Mortality Rate reduction is an objective pursued by the Municipal Health Management and considering the growing tendency of previous years, the city of Guarujá has been developing strategies to identify the causes and develop actions with a view to their reduction. Knowing that the main reasons for the increase in infant mortality are inadequate prenatal care and newborn care in the hospital, in addition to malnutrition and lack of basic sanitation, a work was developed that integrated all the points of the care network, with different approaches, considering the specificity of each point. This gave rise to the attribution of responsibility to each one on this important health indicator that reflects not only the children’s health, but also the living conditions of the population. Based on these articulated actions, the Municipality managed to reach the lowest mortality rate since 2009, from 21.4 deaths per thousand live births to 13.5 in 2016.