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.
Luciano Lima CorreiaMárcia Maria Tavares MachadoDavid Augusto Batista Sá AraújoYuri Valentim Carneiro GomesMaria Suelly Nogueira PinheiroHermano Alexandre Rocha LimaDenise Lima NogueiraGeziel Dos Santos de SousaSimone Farias-AntuñezMarcia Caldas de CastroPublished in: Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology (2022)
An important delay or nonattendance to primary health care consultation by the mother-child dyad was observed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Such practice, with a high potential to increase maternal and child morbidity and mortality, was particularly frequent among younger mothers and those with more than one child.