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0330/2020 - Racial inequality in good practices and obstetric interventions of labor and birth care in Rede Cegonha
Desigualdade racial nas boas práticas e intervenções obstétricas no parto e nascimento em maternidades da rede cegonha

Author:

• Maria Teresa Seabra Soares de Britto e Alves - Alves, M.T.S.S.B - <mtseabra@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4806-7752

Co-author(s):

• Deysianne Costa das Chagas - Chagas, D. C. - <deysianne.chagas@ufma.br>
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0239-6662
• Alcione Miranda dos Santos - Santos, A.M - <alcione.miranda@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9711-0182
• Vanda Maria Ferreira Simões - Simões, V.M.F - <vanda.simoes@ufma.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8351-1348
• Bárbara Vasques da Silva Ayres - Ayres, B.V.S - <barbara.vsayres@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000.0002.6228.5932
• Gilmara Lúcia dos Santos - Santos, G.L - <gilmara.santos@saude.gov.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1730-9114
• Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva - Silva, A.A.M - São Luís (MA), - <aamouradasilva@gmail.com> +
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4968-5138


Abstract:

The aim of this study was to evaluate the racial inequality on delivery and birth care at Rede Cegonha (Stork Network) using good practice indicators and obstetrical interventions. Racial inequality, measured by the total effect of race/color in the crude model, was seen in many indicators. The persistency of the direct effect, after adjustment on mediators, such as: age, education, parity, high risk hospital and geographic macroregions, suggests racial discrimination against black women, that had less partogram filling (RP 0.88; IC 95% 0.80 – 0.95). When compared to white women, black women were less in the position of lithotomy (RP 0.93; IC 95% 0.89 – 0.98), reported less episiotomy (RP 0.81; IC 95% 0.68 – 0.96) and had less pain on episiotomy suture (RP 0.66; IC 95% 0.51 – 0.87), suggesting that good practice were being done more in black women. However, according to the interventionist assistance model, still adopted by many professionals, these practices are routine, and lower achievement in black women would be better interpreted as evidence of racial discrimination against these women. For other outcomes, the effect of race/color disappeared after mediators’ adjustment, suggesting mitigation or disappearance of the effect skin color in some practices/interventions on delivery and birth care.

Keywords:

Racism; Childbirth; Living Birth

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Alves, M.T.S.S.B, Chagas, D. C., Santos, A.M, Simões, V.M.F, Ayres, B.V.S, Santos, G.L, Silva, A.A.M. Racial inequality in good practices and obstetric interventions of labor and birth care in Rede Cegonha. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2020/Nov). [Citado em 27/12/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/racial-inequality-in-good-practices-and-obstetric-interventions-of-labor-and-birth-care-in-rede-cegonha/17812?id=17812



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