The concept of obstetric violence: observations on medical assistance to women during gestational period in Ecuador.

Abstract

In review of obstetric violence, the action of non-compliance was analyzed since it has not yet been criminalized in the Organic Reform Law of the Ecuadorian Organic Comprehensive Criminal Code. The methodology, based on the qualitative-quantitative paradigm, follows the necessary conditions to know what the usefulness for the purposes was required in an analytical-explanatory investigation. Dispensable practices that converge in abuse and assaults on pregnant women were observed when comparing 5 categories of victims between ages from minority to adulthood. The problem stated on the basis of seriousness in the face of the impossibility of reporting by the woman subject to disability, derived from obstetric-medical malpractice.