PREGNANT WOMEN WITH INADEQUATE PRENATAL CARE AND NEUROLOGICAL REPERCUSSIONS ON NEWBORNS

Resumo

To understand the neurological repercussions on newborns of pregnant women with inadequate prenatal care, it is crucial to explore how the quality of prenatal care can influence children's neurological development. Inadequate prenatal care can result in deficiencies in medical monitoring, such as lack of nutritional supplementation, insufficient monitoring of fetal growth and inadequate treatment of maternal conditions that directly affect the neurological development of the fetus. Objective: Analyze and synthesize the available evidence on the implications neurological disorders in newborns whose mothers received inadequate prenatal care. Methodology: followed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) checklist, using databases such as PubMed, Scielo and Web of Science. The descriptors used were "prenatal care", "neurological outcomes", "neonates", "inadequate care" and "neurodevelopment". The inclusion criteria were studies published in the last 10 years, focused on inadequate prenatal interventions and their neurological consequences in newborns, available in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Exclusion criteria included studies unrelated to the topic, non-systematic reviews and studies with small samples. Results: revealed that pregnant women with inadequate prenatal care have a higher incidence of neurological complications in newborns, such as delays in motor and cognitive development, in addition to greater vulnerability neurological diseases such as cerebral palsy. Conclusion: improvements in the quality of prenatal care are essential to mitigate these repercussions and promote better neurological health outcomes in newborns. This review highlights the importance of public health policies that guarantee adequate prenatal care for all pregnant women.