Mental Deficiency Preventive Actions Directed to Pregnant Women and Newborn Children in the Public Health System.
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https://doi.org/10.1590/psicousp.v13i1.108168Palabras clave:
Mental health services. Prevention. Mental deficiency. Public health. Neonates.Resumen
The accomplishment of prevention in Public Health requires a systematized knowledge for the proposition of a program and its evaluation. When it comes to the prevention of Mental Deficiency, which afflicts around 10% of the population, little is known in Brazil. By adopting a methodology for cataloging MD preventive actions in hospitals and health units, with pregnant women and newborns, it was possible to describe and analyze the actions of the public health system in Greater Vitoria/ES, indicating the levels of prevention which were most covered. Preventive actions (PA) of five large public hospitals, nine health units and six health offices, from 1996 to 1997 were studied. Data from 25 interviews show that these places made 51.5% of the 433 possible PA (57.4% of primary prevention and 45.5% of the secondary). Along with the particularization of the action of each municipality and place researched, the obtained data was useful for analyses and possible changes in maternal-infantile health indicators.Descargas
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2002-01-01
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Mental Deficiency Preventive Actions Directed to Pregnant Women and Newborn Children in the Public Health System. (2002). Psicologia USP, 13(1), 107-132. https://doi.org/10.1590/psicousp.v13i1.108168