2009
DOI: 10.1016/s0968-8080(09)34461-4
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Women's movement defends birth centres in Brazil

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“…Estes questionamentos têm mobilizado as entidades sociais em defesa da humanização do parto e do direito de escolha mulher por locais diferenciados do hospital. 18 A cultura assistencial hegemônica no campo obstétrico brasileiro caracteriza-se pela superestimação dos benefícios da tecnologia e na subestimação ou na negação dos desconfortos e efeitos adversos das intervenções. Apesar deste contexto predominante, as mulheres usuárias da Casa de Parto manifestaram alta satisfação pelo cuidado pré-natal.…”
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“…Estes questionamentos têm mobilizado as entidades sociais em defesa da humanização do parto e do direito de escolha mulher por locais diferenciados do hospital. 18 A cultura assistencial hegemônica no campo obstétrico brasileiro caracteriza-se pela superestimação dos benefícios da tecnologia e na subestimação ou na negação dos desconfortos e efeitos adversos das intervenções. Apesar deste contexto predominante, as mulheres usuárias da Casa de Parto manifestaram alta satisfação pelo cuidado pré-natal.…”
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“…These are the same public health proposals we developed in the 1990s, and they continue to be strongly opposed by the medical establishment. 3,8,17 In terms of specialist obstetric care, the necessary resources and drugs to prevent and treat the main causes of maternal deaths are normally available in health services, and virtually all women deliver in hospitals. If the quality of obstetric care is central to the issue of maternal mortality in Brazil, then we need to modify the behaviour of health professionals so that they adhere to evidence-based practice, 14 which is one of the critical issues not being addressed, alongside how certain women are poorly treated and neglected, as in the Alyne case.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Labor care has been increasingly marked by technical and technological interventions as well as by a broad use of cesarean sections as a mode of delivery. 2 For nearly two decades, the Brazilian Ministry of Health (MH) has intervened with policies to humanize labor and delivery, and to reduce the number of cesarean sections, based on recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) and following scientific evidences that point to the disadvantages of surgery compared to vaginal delivery, in terms of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality as well as expenses for the healthcaresystem. [3][4][5] Social movements involving women and health professionals have also raised the flag of labor and delivery practices transformation under the perspective of humanization and reproductive rights.…”
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confidence: 99%