Mortalidade infantil : o que os números não revelam : um estudo da mortalidade infantil no Ceará

Abstract

This paper presents an approach underexplored health indicators , especially the " Infant Mortality " : a reflection on your " identity " as a health indicator . Backed in a study that merges the epistemological reading with anthropological , about which we analyzed processes to decrease the infant mortality rate in Ceará , the period from 1993 to 1997 , is established as a health indicator . for this project we used a brief recovery hysterical conceptual foundations of this indicator and , through a field research based on qualitative methodology , from situations experienced in the municipalities of Itapajé and Ipueiras , we explain the processes that led to the decline of Infant Mortality Rate ( IMR ) in Ceará . These results show that the infant mortality as a health indicator , not parameter is static and fixed , their value and power to reveal changes in health and life of the people have been changing with the story , the time and place , depending on the social, political and technological . Ceará in the period study , it did not represent significant changes in population health or the health of the child, but basically , technological advances , and selective primary care health , specifically for child care for up to 1 year old. verified although in both municipalities , both in higher and in lower decrease in IMR , we applied the same model and the same methodology to reduce it , the biggest difference occurring between the municipalities only in an organized manner and priority of its implementation . reports show that harvested therapeutic model deployed , although inexpensive and " effective " , is not endowed with sustainability , considering bring large distortions educational , pedagogical and even financing , making it increasingly difficult to be implemented and sustained , apparently in a mixed origin ideological , political and organizational . findings of this study point to the urgent need for a review of the intervention model and methodology used for the reduction of IMR in Ceará , with the aim of abolishing its distortions and muni her sustainability .