Browsing by Author "Calle Cortes, Angie Marcela"
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Item Rol ético-político del trabajador social en los programas de promoción y prevención de la mortalidad materna(2024) Calle Cortes, Angie Marcela; Gil Claros, Maria Fernanda (Director)Background: Maternal Mortality is highly relevant in the context of public health in Latin America, highlighting the importance of reducing the high rates that still persist over the years. The objective of this work is to analyze the ethical and political role of the social worker in the promotion and prevention programs aimed at maternal mortality in Latin America, highlighting the results obtained and the challenges they have faced according to the bibliographic review. Methods: Bibliographic review of scientific articles consulting academic databases such as Pubmed, Scopus, Web Of, Science and Google Scholar. Reports from international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) were also included, taking into account all the articles that included or talked about Maternal Morbidity and Mortality and eliminating the rest. Results: The selected articles, which in total were 30, as the literature is reviewed, the results obtained from the different sources are compared to identify patterns, trends or discrepancies in the data in order to compare how the role of the social worker has been in each country and how this has impacted positively or negatively. Conclusions: The review of the literature on maternal morbidity and mortality in Latin America between 2010 and 2020 reveals that, despite advances in prenatal care and access to health services, significant challenges persist that contribute to unacceptable rates of maternal mortality, but this is where the role of the social worker in promotion and prevention programs is highlighted and how they work day by day to mitigate some of these problems, taking into account that in places where extreme poverty exists, they lack economic resources for access to health services, much less have knowledge about the ethical and political role of the social worker