Temporal analysis of breast-feeding in a Primary Health-care Unit of Pelotas, Brazil

Abstract

Children’s health care actions developed in basic health assistance was crucial to reduce infant mortality in Brazil. One of these actions, the stimulus breastfeeding, was associated with prevention of several diseases in children. Using a descriptive cross-sectional study from a secondary database, a research was done in order to analyze the breastfeeding in the first three months of life of infants users of the service provided by the Vila Municipal Basic Heath Unit at Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The data were gathered in Microsoft Excel 2013. The sample was 246 children born from 2011 to 2015. It was not possible to identify a temporal increasing or decreasing pattern of breastfeeding results, once the registration was inappropriately done. Nevertheless, during the period of more completed results, the breastfeeding also presented superior results. The medium of breastfeeding found was in alignment with other results find in Bahia, Florianópolis and Itapira (SP). Still they are down from what is implied by WHO. In fact, it is essential to lay down action to stimulate breastfeeding, also to establish better instruments of evaluation and control of the healthy services provided by SUS (Unit Healthy system) in primary attention.