Abstract
As a physiological phenomenon, pregnancy evolves, in most cases, without incidents. However, a small portion of pregnant women presents greater possibilities of unfavorable evolution for both mother and fetus, either due to their specific characteristics or to different sorts of injury. Such women are in the so-called “high-risk pregnancy” group. Their prenatal care is different from low-risk pregnant women, because the required treatment techniques demand secondary and tertiary level professionals. Prenatal care also requires considering the objective and subjective aspects involved in “high-risk pregnancy” since accompanying this type of pregnancy requires that women be more careful with their health as well their babies’, more frequent consultations, close attention by specialists, use of specific medication, hospital treatments, all of which bring complications for work and family life, among others. Based on the broad concept of health and social determinants involved in the health-disease process, this study aimed at identifying everyday life impacts experimented by women in high-risk prenatal care at the Hospital Universitario Pedro Ernesto. Research data were collected during social assistance given to the subjects.
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