Representações sociais dos profissionais de saúde : o uso de protocolos do pré-natal no município de Francisco Beltrão-PR

Abstract

This study carried out a diagnosis on the use and implementation of care protocols ofprenatal by health professionals in the mother and child care facilities, in the city of Francisco Beltrão-Paraná. The work is of a qualitative nature and happened from a literature search, document and with data collected through focus group in the company of health professionals: doctors, nurses, nursing technicians, dentists, community health workers, members of the municipal committee for preventing maternal and child mortality and pregnant mothers. Starting from the assumption that many maternal and child deaths are preventable and other benefits are achieved when prenatal protocols, such as the Rede Cegonha do Ministério da Saúde, Rede Mãe Paranaense da Secretaria Estadual de Saúde-PR, among others, they are properly used, whose purpose is to provide to the professionals, guidelines for procedures and conducts during the consultations and other assistance needed during the prenatal, perinatal and postpartum period. The objective of the work is to demonstrate that the high rates of infant morbimortality still remain a challenge to overcome, and a protocol and qualified attention in prenatal period can significantly contribute in reducing these rates and promote safe motherhood, taking as an example the municipality of Francisco Beltrao. Thus, the access and use of these protocol guidelines can be an important tool to aid managers in establishing protocols involving the use of health technologies and serving of methodological information source to contribute to the generation of conduct protocols at the local levels of the health public system