Qual o cenário da mortalidade de mulheres em idade reprodutiva no Brasil

Women play a fundamental role both in the country's production and in the family’s constitution, so this study aimsto analyze the mortality rate of women aged 10 to 49 years in Brazil in the period from 2007 to 2016. This is anepidemiological study of ecological type with a spatial distribution performed using data from the Mortality InformationSystem. For the development and analysis of the data, the 161 Intermediate Regions of Urban Articulation wereconsidered, whose dependent variable was the Mortality Coefficient of Women of Childbearing Age, that is, womenaged between 10 and 49. The data were analyzed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, where the data wereaggregated, the coefficients calculated and the classical analyses of these were also carried out. Then, mortality datawere spatialized in TerraView to determine global and local spatial distributions. The survey of the data showed that themortality of women of childbearing age was relevant, mainly in the North, Southeast, and Midwest regions. As for thesociodemographic profile of this population, it was observed that the majority of deaths occurred in women aged 40to 49 years (48.35%), among brown (45.24%), single women (52.92%), and those with a low education. It is expectedthat there will be greater visibility of this event and greater strengthening of public policies aimed at promoting theimprovement of living and health conditions in this population segment.