Prenatal care in primary care, fitness for consultations and assessment of assistance to pregnant women: integrative review

Abstract

Objective: to evaluate the assistance to pregnant women in primary health care and the adequacy of prenatal consultations. Method: this is an integrative literature review, descriptive of a qualitative approach, carried out in 2019. Articles from the Virtual Health Library (VHL) were used, using the following standardized descriptors in DeCS: quality of health care, prenatal care and women's health, resulting in 107 articles. After filtering with the inclusion / exclusion criteria, followed by a careful reading in response to the research problem, it totaled a sample of 14 articles. Results: of these, eleven articles had in their conclusions the need for changes in prenatal care. Conclusion: the research made it possible to visualize the difficulties related to management, the unification of the multidisciplinary team, the training and improvement of health professionals, the improvement of prenatal consultations and also the difference in the quality of care provided to black and indigenous women.