From ‘culture of dehumanization of childbirth’ to ‘childbirth as a transformative experience’: changes in five municipalities in north-east Brazil

Brazil has become a country known as having one of the most extreme examples of the consequences of the hospital-based medicalization of delivery care, while a model of humanization of birth was developed in the State of Ceará in the 1970s. The Government of Japan, through the Japanese International...

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Published in:International journal of gynecology and obstetrics 2001-11, Vol.75 (S1), p.S67-S72
Main Authors: Misago, C, Kendall, C, Freitas, P, Haneda, K, Silveira, D, Onuki, D, Mori, T, Sadamori, T, Umenai, T
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavioral change
Brazil
Childbirth
Cultural Characteristics
Female
Humanization
Humans
Japan
Labor, Obstetric - psychology
Pilot Projects
Practice Patterns, Physicians
Pregnancy
Program Evaluation
Quality of Health Care
Rapid anthropological assessment procedure
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Summary:Brazil has become a country known as having one of the most extreme examples of the consequences of the hospital-based medicalization of delivery care, while a model of humanization of birth was developed in the State of Ceará in the 1970s. The Government of Japan, through the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), collaborated with the Federal Ministry of Health of Brazil and the Government of the State of Ceará, in implementing the Maternal and Child Health Improvement Project in north-east Brazil (1996–2001). This project focused on ‘humanization of childbirth’, with training based intervention activities. Behavioral changes among health professionals who received the project's participatory type of training were described using rapid anthropological assessment procedure (RAP) survey results. Changes from ‘a culture of dehumanization of childbirth’ to ‘childbirth as a transformative experience’ were observed.
ISSN:0020-7292
1879-3479
DOI:10.1016/S0020-7292(01)00511-2