Assistência humanizada no pré-natal: um processo de adesão e educação em saúde

Abstract

The prenatal care is an important subject of the professional point of view, since it brings the discussion to improve the quality of services provided to pregnant women and on the principles of humanization in the accession process in health education prenatal care, hoping of the adoption of a special attention and holistic care. This study discusses the principles of such assistance like requisites for the improvement of health care for pregnant women and children through programs of health education. It was accomplished a review of literature using books and database of virtual library available on the internet (Scielo, Lilacs, Google Scholar), being used as inclusion criteria for articles published between 1984 and 2011 related to the benefits of health education on prenatal and content that could aggregate information related to the proposed objectives. The results show inadequacies in the process of realization of prenatal care, including the low occurrence of educational activities, whether individual or collective. There is also the occurrence of negligence of health professionals with respect to the notes of the visits and care for pregnant women. Accordingly its important to encourage and train health professionals to perform activities of health education with quality, because the Family Health Program is an opportunity for restructuring of the work of public health and health of women for a defense of the Unified Health System in Brazil.