Resumo

REIS, Adriana Elias dos  e  PATRICIO, Zuleica Maria. Application of Ministry of Health guidelines for humane childbirth in a hospital in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Ciênc. saúde coletiva [online]. 2005, vol.10, suppl., pp. 221-230. ISSN 1413-8123.  doi: 10.1590/S1413-81232005000500023.

The change in the scenary from home birth to the hospital has created another culture in the care and attendance for woman in labor, leading to a depreciation of the potencial of the human care, in your cultural and affective characteristics and generating discomfort and even aggravating the womans health and her infant. Looking upon this reality, the Health Departament created gruidelines to help the actions of health teams in the process of birth. The focus of this study was to analyze, in a qualitative way, the application of those actions in a obstetric center of a hospital in the State of Santa Catarina. This research had as participants eleven women in labor, their infants and their companions and the health professionals that assisted those women. The analysis of the data, raised through the techniques of participant comment, interview and documentary analysis, showed limitations of the healty team to incorporate the guidelines in a daily basis routine attendance as well as of the pregnants women and companions in stimulating these practices, especially for the lack of knowledge of your rights. This reinforces the importance of those guidelines been worked during the prenatal of preganant women with their relatives.

Palavras-chave : Humanized childbirth; Humanization of the hospital assistance; Collective health.