A Planned Baby Is a Rarity

” Monitoring and Planning Pregnancy in Russia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15217949
AutoresMeri Larivaara (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, autor correspondente), Meri M Larivaara
Ano2011
Volume32
Fascículo6
Páginas515-537
Data de publicação2011-05-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth Care For Women International (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07399332.2011.555825
PMID21547804
OpenAlexW2130417301
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas36

Russia provides an interesting case for comparative research of maternity care due to the rapid social change and steep fertility decline since the collapse of the Soviet Union. I analyze out-patient maternity care in public sector women's clinics in St. Petersburg on the basis of qualitative observation and interview data. Gynecologists' role in monitoring pregnancy is central, resulting in an emphasis on medical expertise and risk management. Ideally, gynecologists see themselves as medical experts and maternal caretakers, but the latter role seldom materializes in practice. Gynecologists' ideas of pregnancy planning demonstrate a wish for further medicalization of maternity care

Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Fertility · Government (linguistics · Health care · Infant mortality · Medicalization · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Public health · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Nursing