In the last 20 years there was an improvement in access to services and in almost all maternal health indicators in Brazil. Paradoxically, there is no evidence of improvement in maternal mortality. This paper aims to help to understand this paradox, by analyzing the typical models of care in childbirth in public (SUS) and private sectors; the proposals for change based on evidence and on women's rights; and the conflicts of interest and resistance to change. We review the gender biases in research and in programming, especially the overestimation of the benefits of technology, and the underestimation, or the denial, of adverse effects and discomforts of interventions. Beliefs based in sexual culture are often accepted as 'scientific' explan...
UNIFESP Departamento de Medicina PreventivaUNIFESP, Depto. de Medicina PreventivaSciEL
Introduction: In Brazil, the health service’s environment lives a paradox when it comes to the medic...
Throughout history, the process of pregnancy and childbirth in Brazil has undergone several changes....
Objective: to study the right to family planning of women over 35 years old when they exercise their...
The main objective of this study was to understand, based on female social representations, women's ...
OBJECTIVE: To analyze concepts of gender and sexuality present in the field of sex therapeutic inter...
The article discusses the trajectory of the Movement for Men’s Health, a campaign held in 2010 that ...
The differences in health between men and women have been object of great interest, but interpretati...
Since the beginning of the medicalization process, there has been a huge effort towards the maintena...
Pregnancy can be considered a unique situation in a woman's life, with many meanings, a developmenta...
Today, sexuality is considered as one of the pillars of quality of life. At least 49% of women in ge...
This article is based on two interviews with Brazilian gay men couples who went abroad to hire the s...
THE PAPER looks to the heterogeneity of the experience of the female aging. Ageing used to bring abo...
Introduction: The precariousness of public policies on access to health and the purely biomedical no...
Recognized as an innovative type of health care, palliative care is becoming more popular in Brazil,...
UNIFESP Departamento de Medicina PreventivaUNIFESP, Depto. de Medicina PreventivaSciEL
Introduction: In Brazil, the health service’s environment lives a paradox when it comes to the medic...
Throughout history, the process of pregnancy and childbirth in Brazil has undergone several changes....
Objective: to study the right to family planning of women over 35 years old when they exercise their...
The main objective of this study was to understand, based on female social representations, women's ...
OBJECTIVE: To analyze concepts of gender and sexuality present in the field of sex therapeutic inter...
The article discusses the trajectory of the Movement for Men’s Health, a campaign held in 2010 that ...
The differences in health between men and women have been object of great interest, but interpretati...
Since the beginning of the medicalization process, there has been a huge effort towards the maintena...
Pregnancy can be considered a unique situation in a woman's life, with many meanings, a developmenta...
Today, sexuality is considered as one of the pillars of quality of life. At least 49% of women in ge...
This article is based on two interviews with Brazilian gay men couples who went abroad to hire the s...
THE PAPER looks to the heterogeneity of the experience of the female aging. Ageing used to bring abo...
Introduction: The precariousness of public policies on access to health and the purely biomedical no...
Recognized as an innovative type of health care, palliative care is becoming more popular in Brazil,...
UNIFESP Departamento de Medicina PreventivaUNIFESP, Depto. de Medicina PreventivaSciEL
Introduction: In Brazil, the health service’s environment lives a paradox when it comes to the medic...
Throughout history, the process of pregnancy and childbirth in Brazil has undergone several changes....