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Neither Medicine Nor Health Care Staff Members Are Violent By Nature: Obstetric Violence From an Interactionist Perspective.
- Source :
- Qualitative Health Research; Jul2018, Vol. 28 Issue 8, p1308-1319, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This study sought to understand the meaning that women place on the health care practices carried out during labor. We used techniques from Grounded Theory such as coding, categorization, and constant comparison. A total of 18 interviews were conducted with 16 women who had given birth at least once in Colombia. Based on our results, we argue that obstetric violence is an expression of violence during the provision of health care, which occurs in a social environment favoring the development of power relationships between patients and health care staff. Its origin might lie in a health care system whose political and economic foundations encourage inequality on the basis of the patients’ purchasing power. We conclude that rethinking and redefining the concept of obstetric violence is essential for understanding its nature and having an impact on it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MATERNAL health services
PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
DISCRIMINATION (Sociology)
DOMESTIC violence
FEAR
GROUNDED theory
INTERVIEWING
PATIENT-professional relations
PATIENT abuse
POWER (Social sciences)
RESEARCH evaluation
STATISTICAL sampling
DATA analysis
SOCIAL context
PHYSICIANS' attitudes
MEDICAL coding
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10497323
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Qualitative Health Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 130341387
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318763351