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Objective: To understand institutional practices in healthcare as relates to women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period according to social class in Bogota. Materials and methods: Qualitative study based on the critical hermeneutics paradigm. Critical ethnographic method with theoretical sampling. The participants included 9 women and 8 healthcare professionals from the city of Bogotá, attending public and private healthcare institutions that serve populations under both the subsidized as well as the contributive regimes of the General Social Security System. Overall, 38 in-depth interviews were conducted during a 13-month period, with 62 instances of support to the mothers in terms of prenatal care, vaccination, labor, postpartum visits, follow-up tests, psychoprophylactic course, hospitalization and waiting room. Triangulation analysis on Atlas Ti. Results: Taking into account the discourse of the different players, observations and context, two categories were found to be determining factors of inequities: "Market-regulated health" and "Oversight and control in health services". Conclusions: It is advisable in medical practice to build competencies in the population in order to ensure the realization of the rights of women and healthcare personnel. Qualitative research offers the opportunity to promote the transformation of medical rationale affecting women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay analyzes the contributions of the gender approach of feminist thinking to understand the relationship of women in pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum with health service personnel. Original qualitative design research was analyzed, were the relationship of women with health personnel is visualized. It is concluded that the gender approach of feminist thinking is a useful approximation to understand the problem of women's relations with health service personnel in aspects such as obstetric violence, care and the intersection of gender with other categories, in the framework of the health system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To understand the relationship established between women in a situation of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum with the health services personnel according to social class in Bogotá (Colombia). Materials and methods: Qualitative study. Critical hermeneutical perspective and critical ethnography. Theoretical sampling. Analysis by triangulation in Atlas.ti. 9 women and 8 health professionals participated. 38 in-depth interviews were conducted for 13 months and 62 accompaniments to the maternal in the activities of prenatal control, vaccination, labor, postpartum consultation, follow-up exams, prophylactic pisco course, hospitalization and waiting room, both in public services as private. Results: There are inequalities according to social class in which the relationship between women and staff is configured in the following aspects: permeability to the needs of women, recognition of psychosocial aspects, having different points of view against a medical recommendation and right to complain or demand to improve. Conclusions: The situation described above intensifies gender issues in women with a less advantageous social class. It is necessary to develop interventions in educational and health institutions that consider aspects where human resources are sensitized on social issues related to the theoretical proposals of research and the democratization of medical information. It is unfair that the condition of social class and gender affects the quality of care and economically stratifies people's rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective with this narrative review of the literature is to understand the background and theoretical aspects accounting for the relationship between women in the pregnancy, labor and postpartum period and the health services based on their social class. This relation will be defined according to the following four items: social class and women; access of women to the health services; health care practices performed under the institutional service; and relation between women and the health-working personnel. The results showed the following needs in public health: to develop theoretical models of access to the health services based on the right to health (understood as a fundamental right); to consider aspects related to the quality in the provision of health care; and to develop researches under critical reflective perspectives related to the four items described above. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]