Maternal health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of health workers in three Brazilian municipalities.
Ruth Helena de Souza Britto Ferreira de CarvalhoMaria Teresa Seabra Soares de Britto E AlvesAluísio Gomes da Silva-JuniorGisele Caldas AlexandreTatiana Raquel Selbmann CoimbraMaurício MoraesLetícia Oliveira de MenezesSandro Schreiber de OliveiraErika Barbara Abreu Fonseca ThomazZeni Carvalho LamyLely Stella Guzman BarreiraPublished in: PloS one (2023)
Changes caused by the pandemic required immediate adjustments in professional practices, generating insecurities in healthcare regardless of the location studied. The method of hiring health workers remained the same as the previously practiced one in each city. Due to the risk of disease transmission, measures contrary to humanization practices, and more restrictive in São Luís, were reported as harmful to obstetric care. The Covid-19 pandemic was a huge challenge for the Brazilian health system, aggravating the working conditions experienced by health workers. In addition to the work environment, it was possible to briefly glimpse its effects on private life.
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