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. 2024 Sep 20;77(4):e20230072.
doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2023-0072. eCollection 2024.

Factors associated with preventable infant mortality in 2020: a Brazilian population-based study

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Mikaelly Rayanne Moraes Sousa  1 , Cristina Maria Garcia de Lima Parada  1 , Hélio Rubens de Carvalho Nunes  1
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Factors associated with preventable infant mortality in 2020: a Brazilian population-based study

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Mikaelly Rayanne Moraes Sousa et al. Rev Bras Enferm. .

Abstract
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Objectives: to identify factors associated with preventable infant deaths, classified as neonatal and post-neonatal.

Methods: this is an epidemiological and population-based study relating to 2020. Data from the Mortality Information System (MIS) and the preventability classification proposed in the Brazilian Health System List of Causes of Deaths Preventable by Interventions were used.

Results: prematurity, living in the North and Northeast regions and the occurrence of the event at home were associated with preventable neonatal deaths. To the avoidable post-neonatal component, death outside the hospital, low maternal education and children of brown or yellow color/race were associated.

Conclusions: the main risk factor associated with preventable deaths was prematurity, in the case of neonatal death. Low maternal education and occurrence outside the hospital were associated with post-neonatal deaths.

Objetivos:: identificar factores asociados a muertes infantiles evitables, clasificados en neonatales y posneonatales.

Métodos:: se trata de un estudio epidemiológico y poblacional del año 2020. Se utilizaron datos del Sistema de Información de Mortalidad (SIM) y la clasificación de evitabilidad propuesta en el Listado de Causas de Muertes Prevenibles por Intervenciones del Sistema Único de Salud.

Resultados:: la prematuridad, vivir en las Regiones Norte y Nordeste y la ocurrencia del evento en el domicilio se asociaron con muertes neonatales evitables. El componente posneonatal prevenible se asoció con muerte fuera del hospital, baja educación materna y niños de color/raza parda o amarilla.

Conclusiones:: el principal factor de riesgo asociado a muertes evitables fue la prematuridad, en el caso de la muerte neonatal. La baja educación materna y la ocurrencia fuera del hospital se asociaron con muertes posneonatales.

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