The birth rate has fallen in the past four years and increased fetal mortality and post-neonatal mortality in the last two, indicates a comparative study based on the years between 2009 and 2012, released this Monday and quoted by Lusa .
Statistical work, published by the General Directorate of Health, examines nearly 200 pages in the evolution of the birth rate and mortality and stresses in particular an increase in fetal mortality (before birth) in 2012, compared with 2011. Neonatal (children under 28 days) mortality also remained identical to 2011 but rose compared to 2010.
Increased post-neonatal (children older than 28 days and less than a year) . the same period of comparison, especially in Central and Algarve (excepting the Alentejo, where it fell)There were fewer fetal deaths in hospitals, but increased in households, indicates the study, which reads: ‘In 2012 there was an increase in mortality rate that has existed without an overall difference (with any statistical significance) in the respective infant mortality compared with the previous year or for 2009. “
‘ In the information available of births in public hospitals, it was noted that in 2012 continue to increase low birth weight despite the substantial decrease in the number of births, “says the study, which recommends an analysis of ‘worrying’ increase in late fetal mortality.
In the data analysis there were fewer stillbirths in North and Lisbon regions but more at the Centro, Alentejo and Algarve. Neonatal mortality also decreased in 2012 in North and Lisbon regions (relative to 2009) and in other regions rose compared to 2010.
Resume document that last year the number of births in the National Health Service ‘ decreased significantly ‘, a’ trend that has been consolidating ‘, and has been increasing with low birth weights (less than 1500g).And that infant mortality in 2012 was globally comparable to previous years, although within this year have increased in cases of fetal and post-neonatal mortality.
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