Laza VC

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The care delivery by traditional midwives of sexual and reproductive health events in the developing countries is a reality and is linked to low health servicec overage indexes, cultural differences and economic restrictions generated by domestic war conflicts, among other reasons.
Objective: To set the state of the art as to the results of training programs for traditional midwives worldwide in the period of 2005 through 2011.
Methods: Qualitative documentary study. The analysis units were scientific articles in Spanish, English and Portuguese from a number of countries. Data were processed by the content analysis method.
Results: The documentary search reported 12 articles that match with the objective of the study. Among the regions where these training programs were implemented, eleven were carried out in Africa and Asia in rural settings in which poverty, perinatal maternal morbidity and mortality and sexual health disorders prevailed. Eight trainings were performed in the field of perinatal maternal health and three in the sexual health area. Five involved other traditional agents and three included health professionals and/or activities to potentiate training actions aimed at the midwives.
Conclusions: Nine studies showed positive assessment that highlighted the suitability of training traditional midwives in order to mitigate the sexual and reproductive problems in the underdeveloped world.

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