Sociodemographic profile of children served in a neonatal screening
International Journal of Development Research
Sociodemographic profile of children served in a neonatal screening
Received 17th December, 2018; Received in revised form 19th January, 2019; Accepted 25th February, 2019; Published online 29th March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Ryane Oliveira Neves et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To identify the socio-demographic profile of children attended at three Family Health Units (Unidade Saúde da Família - USF) in the city of Castanhal, state of Pará, Brazil. Method: A multi - case study was used to conduct the research, with a quantitative, descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective approach. Data collection was performed through the records found in the Neonatal screening room of the three health units, and their analysis was performed after registration, reading and organization in a database. Result: We found categories in the records, being it, to the dwelling, origin; skin color and sex. Conclusion: In this study it was possible to identify that the majority of newborns live in the urban area, are white and male.
