Abortion mortality in the Santa Catarina State from 1996 to 2005
2008
The Maternal Mortality associated with abortion reveals woman social conditions in life. The goal of this exploratory and descriptive study is to identify the profile of women who have had death associated with abortion in the Santa Catarina State during the period of 1996 to 2005. The source of data collection was the Information System on Mortality and the Information System of Live Newborns from the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The authors analyzed 31 maternal deaths associated to abortion, 51.61% was married women; 38.71% had between one to 8 years of study and 48.39 % had a level of schooling ignored. The West and the North Region of Santa Catarina State were the regions in which the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) was higher, 5.148 and 4.761 respectively.
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