Primary Health Care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Fortaleza, Brazil: associated factors and pattern of use by mothers and children up to 18 months of age

• Main Authors: Luciano Lima Correia (Author), Márcia Maria Tavares Machado (Author), David Augusto Batista Sá Araújo (Author), Yuri Valentim Carneiro Gomes (Author), Maria Suelly Nogueira Pinheiro (Author), Hermano Alexandre Lima Rocha (Author), Denise Lima Nogueira (Author), Geziel dos Santos de Sousa (Author), Simone Farias-Antuñez (Author), Márcia Caldas Castro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the delay or failure to seek primary health care by the mother-child dyads during the COVID-19 pandemic, a practice that has a high potential to increase maternal and child morbidity and mortality. Methods: Data from three survey rounds of the Iracema-COVID cohort stud...