O pré-natal do parceiro: um estudo de revisão narrativa de literatura

Abstract

Objective: To describe what the specialized health literature, available online, brings about the partner's prenatal care in the period from 2016 to 2019. Method: narrative review of literature about the partner's prenatal care. The search was carried out in October 2020 with the descriptors “paternity”, “men's health”, “prenatal care” combined by the Boolean operator “AND” in the Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Science databases (LILACS) and the Virtual Library in Nursing Health (BDENF). Publications of original articles were included, with a complete summary, in the Portuguese language, available free of charge, in full in electronic format, with a five-year time frame. After applying the criteria and including and excluding, there were a total of six articles that make up the body of this research. Results: The studies demonstrate a weakness in this issue, not only due to the small amount of material available in the databases, but also due to the lack of strategies that aim to include more men in the health system, being able to provide them not only with a monitoring of the planning family, but also as a form of treatment and prevention of diseases in view of the fact that they will be closer to health systems and with health professionals, reducing rates of morbidity and mortality considerably. Conclusion: it is crucial that the Ministry of Health strengthens measures capable of meeting the health demands of the male public and that health teams are able to meet these needs in a welcoming way, creating a bond, considering that their approach through Prenatal to the The health system brings benefits not only for him, but also for the mother and baby.