The rate of births by cesarean around 90% in more developed regions of Brazil. In other regions, the rate exceeds 60%. The average equivalent to births in China and is well below the 25% recorded in European countries. While in developed countries the medical intervention is about women and newborns at risk, in Brazil it occurs in healthy mothers.

Today, CS is a consumer good is a model and want to make the delivery, including women served by the Unified Health System, said researcher Maria do Carmo Leal, the National School of Public Health, Fiocruz, during the presentation Sunrise project in Brazil: a national survey about labor and birth on Thursday (11) in the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM) of Unicamp.

The project is funded by CNPq and aims to investigate the labor and birth in Brazil through a national survey with 24 000 pregnant women in Brazil, serving a notice of the Ministry of Health Faculty and graduate students Department of Nursing Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM) of Unicamp are responsible for data collection in six hospitals in the region of Campinas, divided into private, public and mixed with and without neonatal intensive care unit.

We are starting interviews in the second and third hospitals in the region of Campinas. In each, are interviewed 90 mothers and do a follow her and her newborn after 60 days. The data is sent to Fiocruz, which is doing the mapping of Brazil, said the nurse Antonieta Keiko Kakuda Shimo, responsible for Group Research in Women's Health Nursing Department of FCM Unicamp.

According to Maria do Carmo, until now 13 000 interviews were conducted. A larger sample is in the State of São Paulo and should be completed by November. We are clear that C-sections happen due to medical interventions. Brazil entered a path of economic development with access to the use of technology, but without proper social development. The national survey about labor and birth will be the actions of government subsidies to the Networking Stork, said Maria do Carmo.

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