title: Evaluation of care for at-risk newborns from the perspective of a public health policy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Prefeitura Municipal de Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Lúcia Forti
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Luque
authors.forename: Célia Mara Garcia
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: de Lima
authors.forename: Maria Antonieta de Barros Leite
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Carvalhaes
authors.forename: Vera Lúcia Pamplona
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Tonete
authors.forename: Cristina Maria Garcia de Lima
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Parada
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D011634:Public Health; D012307:Risk Factors