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Technical Notes
Maternal and Child Health in Brazil: Challenges and Public Policies
Author: Helena Laneuville
Edition: 1st
Published in: October 2024
Maternal and child primary care consist of offering basic health services to pregnant and postpartum women and children in their first months of life. This technical note raises a red flag for the state of child health, discusses the provision of maternal and child primary care services in Brazilian capitals and indicates public policy alternatives.
There is a negative association between antenatal care coverage and infant mortality: every 1 percentage point increase in adequate antenatal care coverage is associated with a reduction of 0.08 deaths of children under 1 for every thousand live births. A brief review of the literature on primary health policy evaluations indicates feasible alternatives to improve child health that
may be pursued at the municipal level.
This work is part of a sequence of technical notes related to the 2024 Municipal Elections. The data used can be found in the IMDS Elections Panel (link here). The main source of information on public policies is the Impact Platform (link here).
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