Assistência pré-natal na rede municipal de Niterói: a ótica valorativa dos profissionais de saúde

The object of this study is the evaluative perspective of health professionals about the prenatal care. Prenatal is a strong ally in the fight against maternal, perinatal and neonatal morbidity and mortality, and, from this point of view, the values experienced by professionals directly influence this care. The objectives were: to understand the intuited values in the discourse of health professionals on assistance performed prenatally on Basic Care Network of the city of Niteroi; analyze, based on the theory of Max Scheler values, the values intuited in the speeches of professionals who experience prenatal visit; discuss, based on the theory of Max Scheler values, the relationship between the values intuited from professionals’of health point of view in prenatal care in Primary care Network of the city of Niteroi and in current health Policy. We opted for the phenomenological qualitative approach, using a descriptive, exploratory study, in the field of Max Scheler Theory. As data collection instrument, we used a semi-structured individual interview guide, according to the established objectives, which enabled the interviewee discuss the issue. The scenarios of the research were four Primary Health Care Units of municipal government in Niteroi. Fourteen (14) health professionals were interviewed, in Polyclinics, who participate of prenatal care. For treatment of data the content analysis was performed in the thematic mode as proposed by Bardin, enabling systemise data and thus simplify the analysis of the speeches. The following categories emerged: "The bond value as quality process for prenatal visit: a value of vital affection notice"; "An eye to prevention as a key value in the prenatal visit"; "Human resources as useful value in the field of qualified prenatal guarantee". This research was focused on the issue of prenatal care as a preferencial value to society, a vital value, and therefore it is an opposite value when we cannot offer the best way. The results point to a different reality as recommended by the Public Policy. The difficulty in creating bonds between professionals and pregnant women, accessibility problems to prenatal exams, precarious of the human and material resources needed in prenatal care, they were issues that emerged from the speeches of the participants of this professional study. Efforts should be added to the configuration of prenatal care network, so that there is an improvement in the provision of basic conditions for adequacy of this monitoring. Therefore the health professional is crucial both in the articulation of networks and in fully meeting the needs of pregnant women, in favor of advancing assistance. In this sense, the government should prioritize vital aspects to society, such as Health, so serious flaws that can contribute to a significant increase in the mother, neonatal and perinatal mortality do not occur anymore.