Evaluation of care for at-risk newborns from the perspective of a public health policy

The aim was to evaluate the care for at-risk newborns under follow-up in their first year of life by the Growing Happily Program, developed in a city in inner São Paulo state. It is a population-based epidemiological health program evaluation study, which was based on the national guidelines of the Agenda of Commitments to Children and Child Mortality Reduction for data analysis. Results showed the program’s institutional vulnerability, caused by problems related to its structure and process, with implications for its outcomes. Considering the adaptation of the criteria adopted by the Program for defining at-risk newborns, as well as the proposed interventions and strategies, in consonance with the Agenda of Commitments, the need for managers to make it a priority is appointed, by effectively including it in public health care policies to be developed in cities, in order to reverse the institutional vulnerability identified.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Luque,Ana Lúcia Forti, Lima,Célia Mara Garcia de, Carvalhaes,Maria Antonieta de Barros Leite, Tonete,Vera Lúcia Pamplona, Parada,Cristina Maria Garcia de Lima
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto / Universidade de São Paulo 2011
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692011000200010
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