Women with disabilities face increased precarity throughout their lives, with one of the most affected areas being their sexual and reproductive health. The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the scientific literature on obstetric violence against women with disabilities. The search was conducted from August to October 2022 in five databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Dialnet, SciELO, and Scopus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Since the 1960s, the Independent Life Movement has demanded personal assistance as a right for people with disabilities to access autonomy. In turn, feminist movements have shown a special concern for the care and profile of the providers. Both postures have created tensions around the provision of personal assistance and care for people with disabilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
June 2021
Background: Midwives look after women during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium. In Spain, the first wave of COVID was particularly virulent. There are few studies about the experiences of midwives providing care during the COVID pandemic and very few have been undertaken in the countries of southern Europe such as Spain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Birth cultures have been transforming in recent years mainly affecting birth care and its socio-political contexts. This situation has affected the feeling of well-being in women at the time of giving birth.
Aim: For this reason, our objective was to analyse the social meaning that women ascribe to home births in the Chilean context.
Aims: Exploring social and health care representations of home birth by conducting an integrative review of the literature.
Design: Integrative Literature Review.
Data Sources: The search was based on the following keywords: "birth, home," "home birth," "childbirth, home.