ACHILD MORTALITY IN THE CITY OF RORAIMA AND INDIGENOUS POPULATION

Abstract

In the last decades, in developed countries there has been an increasing fall in maternal mortality. In developing countries the decline was small. This research aims to analyze the incidence of maternal and infant mortality in the State of Roraima in 2013. This is a descriptive and analytical study, of a quantitative nature to identify the occurrences of maternal and infant deaths in Roraima. The indexes and coefcients analyzed in this research were collected from information on the number of births and deaths of children under one year old, in 2013. It was observed that in the State of Roraima the level of maternal and infant mortality is still not satisfactory and that needs public policies capable of reducing the incidence of infant mortality, especially in indigenous areas.