Abstract

CONCHA-SANCHEZ, Sonia Constanza. Health-disease process oral-care of the pregnant: an overview of women in the determination based social health. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2013, vol.61, n.3, pp.275-291. ISSN 0120-0011.

Summary Background. Health care during pregnancy and the access to dental care for pregnant women in Bogotá registers deep inequities. The oral pathologies and its complications to mothers and their children has stimulated the need for identifying the health-illness-oral care process of pregnant women based on the postulates of the social determination of Breilh and approaches of Menendez. Objective. Characterize the health-disease-care oral pregnant women. Materials and methods. An investigation with interpretative qualitative approach based on the Jodelet theoretical bases was performed. The process involved women who assist to their control antenatal and postpartum to Suba, Engativá and Simón Bolívar Hospitals. The procedure involved nterviews, arrange the entry to the institutions, collect and synthesize information, to carry out its processing and analysis. Results. The study involved the characterization of 18 women. The study involved the constitution of analysis categories and the description of the health-disease-oral care process of pregnant women in the economic, political and cultural levels in the singular, particular and general grade in the framework of the epidemiological profile of the social determination. Conclusion. The health-illness-oral care process of the pregnant women in the hospitals involved in the study was influenced by determinants in the individual, particular and general level in the political, economic and cultural issues. It can be concluded that some aspects of promoting process are present, but also there are several difficulties in oral care. It is necessary the intervention at different levels for transforming in the short, middle and long time in order to promote the oral health and quality of life in the pregnant women.

Keywords : Pregnancy Maintenance; Public Policy; Oral Health; Social Conditions.

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