Régulations en santé materno-infantile en milieu populaire à partir de la notion de risque

In Brazil, with every passing day public authorities have become more and more involved in the field of maternal and child heath, producing important changes in the behaviors and reproductive experiences of women. This investment has sparked an important change in regulation forms of birth and deliv...

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Main Author: Alfonsina Faya-Robles
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Language:fra
Published: Association Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé 2014-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/1525
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description In Brazil, with every passing day public authorities have become more and more involved in the field of maternal and child heath, producing important changes in the behaviors and reproductive experiences of women. This investment has sparked an important change in regulation forms of birth and delivery, between a process of medicalization and healthicization. In that context, the evaluation and monitoring of risks have become fundamental and follow sanitary goals such as the reduction of child mortality, one of the « Millennium Development Goals » of the UN, which has become one of Brazil's priority. In health services, the epidemiological category of risk schedules the care of pregnancies by drawing the distinction between « high » and « low risk » pregnancies. However, this notion distinguishes pregnancies not only according to medical criteria but also to social criteria, conveying social representations and prejudices against pregnant women considered as « deviant ». Based on ethnographic research in the city of Recife in Brazil's Nordeste, this article proposes to examine the extension of the category of risk in the field of pregnancy management to the working class women. It reveals a shift from the normalization of pregnant women's bodies towards a normalization of parentality and maternity. The article concludes by putting the disciplinary force of the category of risk in perspective in order to show how it is subjectivized in women's experiences.
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Régulations en santé materno-infantile en milieu populaire à partir de la notion de risque
Anthropologie & Santé
risk
healthicization
regulation
maternal and child health
parentality
title Régulations en santé materno-infantile en milieu populaire à partir de la notion de risque
title_full Régulations en santé materno-infantile en milieu populaire à partir de la notion de risque
title_fullStr Régulations en santé materno-infantile en milieu populaire à partir de la notion de risque
title_full_unstemmed Régulations en santé materno-infantile en milieu populaire à partir de la notion de risque
title_short Régulations en santé materno-infantile en milieu populaire à partir de la notion de risque
title_sort regulations en sante materno infantile en milieu populaire a partir de la notion de risque
topic risk
healthicization
regulation
maternal and child health
parentality
url https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/1525
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