Time trend of infant mortality due to congenital malformations in recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Time trend of infant mortality due to congenital malformations in recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Received 27th April, 2021; Received in revised form 30th May, 2021; Accepted 06th June, 2021; Published online 25th July, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Maysa Almeida da Silva 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 analyze the time trend of infant mortality due to congenital malformations of residents of Recife, PE, during the period from 2001 to 2016. Methods: it is an ecological time-series study whose data sources were the Information Systems about Mortality (SIM) and Live Births (Sinasc). The rates and proportion of mortality due to congenital malformations were analyzed on a monthly basis by the autoregressive model of moving averages with an ancillary variable (ARMAX). Results: Out of a total of 1,194 child deaths due to congenital malformation, 527 (44.18%) occurred during the early neonatal period, 588 (49.25%) were male, 571 (47.8%) weighed ≥2,500 grams. The rate of child mortality due to congenital malformation showed a constant average, with a fairly stable result. As for the proportion of deaths due to congenital malformation, a growing trend was observed during the period analyzed, with significant growth from 2015 to 2016. Conclusion: the time-series analysis enabled the knowledge of the behavior of child mortality due to congenital malformation. These results may support healthcare actions and actions for the development of preventive measures in order to reduce that mortality.
