DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17268/rmt.2020.v15i02.02

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17268/rmt.2020.v15i02.02

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People with intellectual disabilities (PID) are prone to complications during some illnesses due to their comorbidities, thus requiring differentiated hospital care. However, they do not usually receive an appropriate treatment and their rights are often violated, especially in the ethical field. The principles of justice, non-maleficence, beneficence and autonomy could be violated in hospital settings not only by health personnel, who sometimes provide dehumanized treatment and with little involvement of the caregiver, but also by hospital care systems, which do not consider PID’s limitations, inequalities and priority needs. To identify this reality, the present narrative review was conducted, finding 484 articles in databases such as PubMed, Scopus and LILACS, out of which 53 were included. The scarcity of information directly related to ethics in hospital care stands out; however, ...

Letter to the Editor (without abstract)

Letter to the Editor (without abstract)

Prenatal care is intended to preserve and improve maternal and child health; however, the quality of this service and the attendance rates vary, with developing countries having the lowest rates. There are cultural gaps that prevent adequate access to prenatal care, putting the maternal and child health at risk. Our objective was to carry out an updated review on cultural gaps and their impact on prenatal care. This narrative review was conducted by searching all articles published until December 17, 2022, in English databases such as PubMed and Scopus, and Spanish databases such as SciELO. There are various situations that force pregnant women not to attend prenatal appointment, including machismo, reported as a common cause of non-attendance to prenatal checkups in developing countries and especially in rural communities; poor education in families, so women do not attend prenatal chec...