Mortalidade de Mulheres em Idade Fértil e Materna na População Indígena do Estado de Pernambuco

Despite advances made after the creation of the Subsystem of the Indigenous Healthcare in Brazil in 1999, the health of indigenous people remains with many of the problems experienced by the general population, among them, the health of women of reproductive age. In parallel, reliable information on the health situation of these population groups are incipient, hindering the construction and limiting the use of capable indicators to support the development of specific public policies. Objective: To analyze the mortality of women of childbearing and motherly age (MIF) of the indigenous population of the state of Pernambuco, from 2006 to 2012. Method: It is an exploratory descriptive study, for which it was held one linkage between deaths information of MIF indigenous race/color from Mortality Information System (MIS) and reports generated from the qualification of this question by DSEI Pernambuco in the SIM-Web research module. The MIF and maternal deaths were classified by underlying cause, according to the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (1993), and maternal deaths analyzed according to the model of the three delays proposed by Thaddeus and Maine (1994). Results: A bank composed of 115 deaths of MIF was obtained, of which 41.7% were sub-informed as the indigenous to SIM and 70.4% were villatic women .The highest proportion of deaths occurred among women of older age, low education, farmers and single. The main causes of death were cardiovascular diseases, followed by external causes, neoplasms and maternal causes. Ten maternal deaths were identified (05 by direct obstetric causes and 05 indirect obstetric ones), whose delays took place mainly in Phases II and III. Conclusions: The results show the linkage between the databases as an essential tool which can enable knowledge of MIF deaths and maternal indigenous sub-informed and the construction of the mortality profile of the studied population. Deaths from maternal causes represent an important cause of death in this population and show themselves with similar pattern to the deaths of women from rural areas of the state, resulting from timely access difficulties and disorganization of obstetric care network as a whole.