biotecnologia

ARTIGO ARTICLE

O Programa de Humanização no Pré-natal e Nascimento do Ministério da Saúde no Brasil: resultados iniciais
The Brazilian Ministry of Health’s Program for Humanization of Prenatal and Childbirth
Care: preliminary results

Suzanne Jacob Serruya 1
José Guilherme Cecatti 2
Tania di Giacomo do Lago

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Abstract
1 Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Brasil.
2 Departamento de
Tocoginecologia,
Universidade Estadual de
Campinas, Campinas, Brasil.
3 Faculdade de Ciências
Médicas, Santa Casa de
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Correspondência
S. J. Serruya
Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia, Ministério da Saúde. Esplanada dos
Ministérios, Bloco G, Ed.
Sede, 8 o andar, Brasília, DF
70058-900, Brasil. [e-mail] Introdução

This article evaluates the implementation of the
Brazilian Ministry of Health’s Program for Humanization of Prenatal and Childbirth Care using data generated by the SISPRENATAL/DATASUS database from the Unified National Health
System. From its beginning in June 2000 until
December 2002, 3,983 municipalities joined the
Program, and 71% of participating municipalities (3,183) reported their health care activities, constituting a database with 720,871 women.
Nearly 20% of the women had six or more prenatal visits, and approximately half of them had the postpartum follow-up visit and required lab tests performed in 2002. In addition,
41% of the women had been vaccinated against tetanus. The number of HIV antibody tests was twice that of syphilis during the two-year period. Only a small percentage of women (2% in
2001 and 5% in 2002) received the entire set of prenatal and childbirth care services. The low percentages attest to the need for permanent evaluation aimed at improving quality of care and guaranteeing both high-quality maternal and perinatal results and the inalienable right of women to safe care and well-being during pregnancy and