Humanization of delivery and formation of health professionals

Abstract

The development of this study, which aims to identify aspects of vocational training in the humane attention to labor and birth, has as its main justification rescue the importance of inclusion of this theme in the teaching and learning of higher education institutions and continuous education programs of health institutions. It is an integrative review, with bibliographic review carried out on a Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO) database, in May 2009, through the descriptor: humanization of delivery, without limiting the period of publication. The following categories emerged from the analysis of selected studies: The academic and the proposal for the humanization of childbirth; Permanent Education: touch the health professionals to humanize delivery and birth. In the results, it was noticed that there was a prevalence of the biomedical model of health care, the inconsideration of the human being in a holistic perspective, lack of approach on aspects which comprise humanization in the academic environment, insensitivity and incapacity of health professionals, which becomes a challenge towards the humanized attention to delivery and birth.