Suchergebnisse

RESUMO O artigo descreve a situação sanitária dos serviços de hemoterapia avaliados pela Vigilância Sanitária em 2011 e 2012 por meio do Método de Avaliação de Risco Potencial de Serviços de Hemoterapia (MARPSH), classificando-os em cinco categorias: Baixo, Médio-Baixo, Médio, Médio-Alto e Alto. Dos 560 avaliados, houve acréscimo de 9% nos classificados como de baixo risco e queda de 6% entre os de alto. Os principais problemas foram encontrados na região Norte, em agências transfusionais e serviços públicos. Destacaram-se não conformidades relacionadas à gestão da qualidade, de pessoal e de equipamentos. Apesar das melhorias observadas, notaram-se serviços críticos com comprometimento à segurança e à eficácia dos produtos e serviços.

OBJECTIVE. To identify barriers to the implementation of National Childbirth Guidelines in Brazil from the women's perspective. METHOD. A descriptive exploratory study was performed using a qualitative approach and an interpretive perspective. The hermeneutic unit of analysis was established based on the contribution of users to a public online consultation about the National Childbirth Guidelines in Brazil, performed in 2016 by the National Committee for Health Technology Incorporation into the Unified Health System (CONITEC). Content analysis techniques were used to examine the answers provided to the following specific question: "Considering your local reality, what would hinder the implementation of this protocol or guideline?" RESULTS. Of 396 contributions recorded by CONITEC, 55 were included in the content analysis. The mean age of women was 31 years, with most self-declared as white (69%) and living in the Southeast of Brazil (56.3%). Coding revealed seven barrier categories, which were grouped into three families — barriers related to 1) professional training and culture (which highlighted the centrality of physicians, not women, in childbirth), 2) social culture (general population not well informed), and 3) political and management issues (little interest on the part of managers, lower physician compensation for vaginal childbirth vs. Caesarian section, and poor hospital infrastructure). CONCLUSIONS. Aspects of professional training and culture, social culture, and political as well as management issues are critical points to be considered in future interventions aiming at overcoming or weakening the barriers to implementing childbirth recommendations in Brazil.

This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply the latest scientific evidence to support and facilitate normal physiological birth; deal appropriately with complications; and generate excellent birth outcomes—including psychological satisfaction for the mother. The book concludes with a description of the ideology that underlies all these working models—known internationally as the midwifery model of care