Popular beliefs on maternal health and the main healthcare model

Authors

  • Graciela Sofía Castellano Bentancur
  • Jimena Heinzen Cesio
  • María Soledad Nión Celio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31052/1853.1180.v14.n2.7081

Keywords:

beliefs, maternal health, helathcare model

Abstract

“Popular beliefs and practices about pregnancy and childbirth: a focus on health-disease process”, is a research developed at Preventive and Social Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de la República.

This article is a preliminary framework and a discussion about healthcare system as a whole and its hegemonic conceptions, in particular about maternal healthcare policies, and how it take in account beliefs and practices of female users. In this specific case, the discussion focuses on the definition and relevance of an approach on health beliefs and practices of pregnant women, characterization of the healthcare model in Uruguay and the relationship of it with the beliefs of this population.

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Author Biographies

Graciela Sofía Castellano Bentancur

Doctora en Medicina, Estudiante de Posgrado de Epidemiología (F. Medicina), Asistente del Depto. Medicina Preventiva y Social, Facultad de Medicina, UdelaR

Jimena Heinzen Cesio

Estudiante de Medicina. Ayudante del Depto. Medicina Preventiva y Social, Facultad de Medicina , UdelaR

María Soledad Nión Celio

Lic. en Sociología, Aspirante a Magister en Sociología (FCS), Asistente de la Unidad de Sociología de la Salud del Depto. Medicina Preventiva y Social, Facultad de Medicina, UdelaR

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Castellano Bentancur GS, Cesio JH, Nión Celio MS. Popular beliefs on maternal health and the main healthcare model. Rev. Salud Pública (Córdoba) [Internet]. 2014 Apr. 3 [cited 2024 May 19];14(2):32-46. Available from: https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/7081

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Scientific Articles

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