What is the mortality scenario for women of reproductive age in Brazil?

Abstract

Women play a fundamental role both in the country's production and in the family's constitution, so this study aims to analyze the mortality rate of women aged 10 to 49 years in Brazil in the period from 2007 to 2016. This is an epidemiological study of ecological type with a spatial distribution performed using data from the Mortality Information System. For the development and analysis of the data, the 161 Intermediate Regions of Urban Articulation were considered, whose dependent variable was the Mortality Coefficient of Women of Childbearing Age, that is, women aged between 10 and 49. The data were analyzed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, where the data were aggregated, the coefficients calculated and the classical analyses of these were also carried out. Then, mortality data were spatialized in TerraView to determine global and local spatial distributions. The survey of the data showed that the mortality of women of childbearing age was relevant, mainly in the North, Southeast, and Midwest regions. As for the sociodemographic profile of this population, it was observed that the majority of deaths occurred in women aged 40 to 49 years (48.35%), among brown (45.24%), single women (52.92%), and those with a low education. It is expected that there will be greater visibility of this event and greater strengthening of public policies aimed at promoting the improvement of living and health conditions in this population segment.