A Holistic Concept of Humanized Childbirth in Cuba

Abstract

Introduction: The Cuban health system has achieved low rates of maternal and infant mortality, which is an achievement of both the health system and the socioeconomic system; but when taking into consideration that childbirth constitutes the beginning of life, its humanization constitutes an unplayable need.
Objective: To characterize humanized childbirth in Cuba.
Methods: We carried out a systematic bibliographic review to grow a reflexive critical analysis of the content of documents in SciELO and Google academic databases. After the identification of the pre-selected studies, we studied titles, abstracts and keywords for verifying the relevance for our study.
Conclusion: This theoretical analysis brings assumptions regarding the birthing process in the context of Cuban maternity wards where health professionals with high scientific level and high technological expertise domain to guarantee a satisfactory result in the mother-child binomial but inclusion of the humanizing and integral component is required in order to provide better quality care.