Administrative Management in Maternal and Neonatal Health Policy: A Review of the State of the Art

Abstract

This work was done with the fundamentals of bibliometrics and with the review of the analysis of the literature, through the state of the art of administrative management in the Maternal Neonatal Health Policy. First, through the search argument in the Scopus database, developing the statistics of the publications considering the categories of evolution of the publications by year, by authors, areas of knowledge and by countries; then the co-occurrence analysis of the key terms was performed integrating the information through the VOS Viewer program; Likewise, ATLAS Ti V8 was used for the analytical review of the documents, identifying categories such as objectives, activities, strategies, human resources, financial resources, impact, methodology and public policies. The investigation concludes that according to Scopus' basis on the subject, it is researched from 1979 to July 2021; had greater interest since 2011, being the main ones the articles, which were approached from the area of knowledge of medicine. In relation to the analysis of the state of the theoretical and methodological progress, the commitment to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by the year 2030 was shown, complying with Sustainable Development Goal 3; in addition to knowing the access to prenatal care, the financing of activities, in order to improve the quality of maternal and neonatal care services. Problems have been identified in the health-related services in the designation of managers or directors that are not carried out by meritocracy but by political affinity or recommendation, originating the lack of capacity in the public administration; causing a deficient use of financial resources.

Finally, neonatal maternal health is one of the main intervention axes because the population is in a situation of vulnerability due to exposure to risks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the difficulty in accessing health services for your prenatal care and/or institutional birth care; guaranteeing with Health Policies, the priority being the strengthening of the health system.