Characterization of births and flow of declarations of live births in the Municipality of Cascavel, Paraná

Abstract

Our objective was to identify the flow of the Declarations of Live Births and to characterize the births in a medium size municipality in south of Brazil. Quantitative, descriptive and exploratory research was employed, whose data were obtained from the Information System on Live Births, by a data collection instrument developed. The analysis was descriptive statistics. The time for the declaration arrival to the primary care units by mail was variable, predominating from 6 to 10 days (63.1%). Consistent with the time taken for the declaration arrival to primary care units, the period that predominated to perform the home visit to the newborn was from 6 to 10 days (57.8%), with units that delayed more than 20 days (5.2%). The home visit of the child at risk took an average of up to 5 days in 55.2% of the cases and more than 5 days in 31.5%. About newborn characterization, the birth weight range was among 3,000 to 3,999 grams (64.09%, n = 3,015), male (50.46%, n = 2,374) and Apgar in the first minute of 8 - 10 (85%, n = 4.014). It was observed that the care to the mother and the newborn in the municipality of Cascavel in the first days of life is not following the guidelines from Mãe Parananese, with the home visit until the fifth day, and a schedule of the first childcare visit before to primary care unit until ten days of the newborn’s life.