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CADERNOS DE SAUDE PUBLICA
Volume 30, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CADERNOS SAUDE PUBLICA
DOI: 10.1590/0102-311X00151513
Keywords
Public Health Practice; Maternal and Child Health; Obstretic Labor; Parturition
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- National Council for Scientific and Technilogical Development (CNPq)
- Science and Tecnology Department, Secretariat of Science, Tecnology, and Strategic Inputs, Brazilian Ministry of Health
- National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (INOVA Project)
- Foundation for supporting Research in the State of Rio de Janeiro (Faperj)
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This study evaluated the use of best practices (eating, movement, use of nonpharmacological methods for pain relief and partograph) and obstetric interventions in labor and delivery among low-risk women. Data from the hospital-based survey Birth in Brazil conducted between 2011 and 2012 was used. Best practices during labor occurred in less than 50% of women and prevalence of the use of these practices was lower in the North, Northeast and Central West Regions. The rate of use of oxytocin drips and amniotomy was 40%, and was higher among women admitted to public hospitals and in women with a low level of education. The uterine fundal pressure, episiotomy and lithotomy were used in 37%, 56% and 92% of women, respectively. Caesarean section rates were lower in women using the public health system, nonwhites, women with a low level of education and multiparous women. To improve the health of mothers and newborns and promote quality of life, a change of approach to labor and childbirth that focuses on evidence-based care is required in both the public and private health sectors.
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