Voluntarily sterilized women by the Unified Health System in Ribeirão Preto-São Paulo, according to the type of delivery. / Mulheres esterilizadas voluntariamente pelo sistema único de saúde em Ribeirão Preto - SP, segundo o tipo de parto

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The Brazilian Constitution of 1998 guarantees that health is a citizen right and a duty of the State. The PAISM (Women Health Comprehensive Program) was created emphasizing a comprehensive approach aiming to consi der the social, emotional and psychologi cal issues as part of health condition as well as contraception. However its imple mentation has not been completed up to now. This can be observed by the high prevalence of unwanted pregnancies, difficult access to family planning information, predominance of female surgical sterilization as a contraceptive method and the cesarean section. All these aspects are obstacles to sexual and reproductive rights. Since the implementation of the Federal Legal Act 9263 which regulates Family Planning Provision and approves surgical steriliza tion offering it in the public health system it is possible a disconnection between birth delivery and the surgical procedu re of sterilization. The objective of this study is to know the characteristics of women sterilized by SUS (Unified Health System) in Ribeirão Preto, betwen 2000 and 2004, according to the type of delive ry, cesarean or vaginal. The sample in cludes 235 sterilized women during the first five years of the surgical sterilizati on provision (2000-2004) Data was col lected through household interviews using a structured questionnaire. The results showed that the most sterilized women were white, married, with 8 years of schooling or less and belonged to socioeconomic category C or D. They were sterilized between 30 and 39 years old, with the average of 33.3 years old and median age of 33, 52.3% were using oral contraceptives before sterilization. They were found to have an average of 3,2 children and 51.7% had the first child between 13 and 19 years old. This study indicated that steri lized women had more children, started giving birth earlier and used contracepti ves while they waited for the surgery, and were sterilized later when compa red to the results of other studies. As to delivery types, 71,2% of deliveries along the reproductive history of these women were vaginal while 28% were cesarean what points out the important aspect of the disconnection between sterilization and the cesarean, as deter mined by law, and that these women who had mostly vaginal deliveries are having a better access to sterilization.

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saúde sexual e reprodutiva family planning cesarean section female surgical sterilization sexual and reproductive rights cesárea planejamento familiar esterilização cirúrgica feminina

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