Behavior of infancy mortality from 2011 to 2019 in Mayabeque

Abstract

Introduction:

An indicator of life quality at international level, is the childish mortality rate.

Objective:

To characterize the behavior of childish mortality from in Mayabeque.

Methods:

An observational, descriptive, retrospective study was carried out in Mayabeque province. The universe under study was formed by 189 deceased children, younger than one year old in the period from 2011 to 2019. The studied variables were: alive born children, childish mortality by months and municipalities; accumulated and proportional mortality, according to the components, gestational age and newborn weight; basic causes of death. The information was obtained by surveys to relatives to the deceased children and death certificates. A data base was performed, the distribution of absolute numbers, percentages and rates.

Results:

A tendency to the increasing of deceased children has been observed, since 2015, 2013 with a rate of 6.3 x 1000 alive born children and the 2018 with 5.9 x 1000. The municipalities with highest incidence were: Güines, 20.11 % and San José, 19.58 %. The infectious causes prevails with a rate 1.5 x 1000 and interventricular hemorrhages, rate 0.7 x 1000. The early neonatal component prevailed with a rate of 2.9 x 1000 alive born children.

Conclusions:

The infancy mortality rate has unfavorable results in the analyzed period; there are municipalities that present rates higher than the average rate of the province. It is necessary that the province provides effective working projections to modify this health indicat