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0177/2020 - Social practices of childbirth and birth in Brazil: The speech of the puerperal women
Práticas sociais do parto e do nascer no Brasil: A fala das puérperas

Author:

• Neide Pires Leal - Leal, N.P - <neidepiresleal@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8793-1112

Co-author(s):

• Maria Helena Versiani - Versiani, M.H - <mversiani3@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7135-5242
• Maria do Carmo Leal - Leal, M.C - <ducaleal@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3047-515X
• Yammê Ramos Portella Santos - Santos, Y.R.P - <yamme.6@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1955-7779


Abstract:

The article analyzes a group of women\'s opinions about the care they received at maternities integrated to Rede Cegonha Program,Ministry of Health. Such opinions were systematized through a questionnaire applied to 10,665 puerperal women, in the years 2016 and 2017, as part of the study “Good practices evaluation for health care and childbirth in maternities within the scope of Rede Cegonha program”, developed by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and the Federal University of Maranhão. Mostly composed of closed-ended questions, the questionnaire contained, at the end, an optional open-ended question. So women had the opportunity to speak freely about the conditions of their care in maternity hospitals. Of the 10,665 puerperal women interviewed, 2,069 registeres free opinions. A critical reading of the opinions was made, attentive to their singularities and recurrences. The study relying on specialized bibliographic productions. The highlighted themes were: the relationship of those women with the health professional team; the puerperals’s right to information; the presence of the companion; and the quality of hospital services and infrastructure. In common, all women,praise or criticism, reiterate the importance of qualifying public health services in favor of the humanization of childbirth in Brazil.

Keywords:

Health Services Evaluation; Parturition; Rede Cegonha.

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Leal, N.P, Versiani, M.H, Leal, M.C, Santos, Y.R.P. Social practices of childbirth and birth in Brazil: The speech of the puerperal women. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2020/Jul). [Citado em 27/12/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/social-practices-of-childbirth-and-birth-in-brazil-the-speech-of-the-puerperal-women/17659?id=17659



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