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[Maternity and extreme poverty. Ways of supervising pregnancy and delivery]
M Baumann1, G Deschamps, J P Deschamps
1Faculté de Médecine A, Département de Santé Publique, BP 184, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy.
In women living under extreme poverty conditions, isolation, absence of social support, stress, seem to play a major role in the morbidity of pregnancy. In spite of thorough monitoring and frequent hospitalization, morbidity remains. This study stresses that the follow-up of pregnancies should not only be characterized by a quantitatively increased medical monitoring, but also by a warmer relationship between women living in a disadvantaged environment and health personnel.
In women living under extreme poverty conditions, isolation, absence of social support, stress, seem to play a major role in the morbidity of pregnancy. In spite of thorough monitoring and frequent hospitalization, morbidity remains. This study stresses that the follow-up of pregnancies should not only be characterized by a quantitatively increased medical monitoring, but also by a warmer relationship between women living in a disadvantaged environment and health personnel.