Color/race issue: challenges of race-related maternal mortality indicators as important information to elaborate public health policy plans

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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i3.1905

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Maternal mortality, Data, Color/race issue, Health Information Systems, Maternal health.

Abstract

This article presents a quantitative research examining the color/race-related maternal mortality rate in Brazil over the last two decades (2000-2019), aiming to emphasize the importance of the disclosure of information as indicators of racial inequalities in the black women’ maternal mortality in the gestational period, during the childbirth and puerperium. The methodology uses the disaggregation by color/race of data from the Sistema Único de Saúde (DataSUS - Unifid Health System) derived from the SIM - Sistema de Informação de Mortalidade (Mortality Information System), in order to collect data related to maternal deaths and from the Sinasc - Sistema de Nascidos Vivos (Live Births System), for the data related to births registered in the national territory. The results obtained point to a trend towards the maternal mortality rates being substantially higher among Black race/color women than among White race/color women, revealing the lack of information and policies that minimize the vulnerability of some ethnic-racial groups in the maternal health care system.

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Denise Carvalho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Mídia. Natal, RN

Doutorado em Sociologia pela Universidade de São Paulo.

Daniel Meirinho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Mídia. Natal, RN

Doutorado em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

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2020-09-29

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Carvalho, D., & Meirinho, D. (2020). Color/race issue: challenges of race-related maternal mortality indicators as important information to elaborate public health policy plans. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i3.1905

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Vol. 14 No. 3 (2020): Dossiê Preservação Digital

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