A desigualdade em saúde e o baixo peso ao nascer : uma revisão sistemática com metanálise

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2012

RESUMO

Considering the hypothesis that an excessive use of new technologies and the lack of heath resources can present similar outcomes concerning low weight rates at birth (LWB), it was analyzed the association between the social standing, which was obtained from the maternal schooling, profession and income, and the low weight rates at birth. It deals with a literature and meta-analysis systematic revision, in which cohort and cross-sectional studies were included, available at the MEDLINE bibliographic database, using the previously defined strategical search including the descriptors: socio-economic factors, infant low birth weight, cohort studies, and cross-sectional studies. The meta-analysis was done through the STATA Program 10.00, using the metan command. Seven hundred and twenty-nine studies were identified, which were included in the meta-analysis 12. In order to obtain summary measures of effect, the odd ration effect model was used and its results were presented through Forest Plot graphics. The instrument employed to assess quality was the Newcastle- Ottawa Scale. The result, in a punctuation format, showed that the majority of studies included were of high quality. The meta-analysis results revealed a relationship between the upper class maternal socio- economical condition and the birth weight. For schooling it was 0.67; for profession, 0.68; and for income 0.61. These findings show that a better socioeconomical condition protects in 30% the LWB risk. In the middle classes, the results were not meaningful for schooling and occupation, being not possible to determine its relationship with the LWB; therefore, the income variant magnitude effect was 0.81, showing that belonging to the middle class protects in 19% against the low weight risk at birth. In the publication bias analysis, the Egger Test was used. The results obtained from the Funnel Plot graphics showed no publication bias, except for the maternal schooling average (P=0.027). For the effect size recalculation of this analysis, it was used the Trim and Fill Method. In the first assessment, it was 0.86 (IC 95%: 0.69 - 1.06) and in the second, 0.71 (IC 95%; 0.56 - 0.88). The results obtained showed that similarity hypotheses between the extremes from the social distribution in relation to the LWB rate was not confirmed and that, despite the decades of investigation and intervention in the maternal infant health area, the social inequalities remain as an important impact factor over the prenatal outcomes like the LWB.

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desigualdades em saúde health inequalities condições sociais social conditions infant recém-nascido de baixo peso metanálise low birth weight meta-analysis

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