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Revista Colombiana de Bioética 2024; 19 (2)

Maternal morbidity and inequity in times of COVID-19: Bioethical perspectives

García UJC, López MJ, Betancur PJC, Figueroa LJ

Language: Spanish
References: 60
Page: 1-20
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ABSTRACT

/Context. Maternal morbidity was one of the underlying crises prior to the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, and existing inequities in low- and middle- income countries exacerbated this and other crises. This review article aims to provide a bioethical analysis of maternal morbidity in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those situations caused or exacerbated by the pandemic.
Methodology/Approach. This is a scoping review conducted during the years 2020 to 2024, which included articles related to the care of pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic, published between 2019 and 2024, in academic databases.
Results/Findings. In particular, the most vulnerable pregnant population had to face harsher social problems, which resulted in less favorable maternal health outcomes, with large differences between low- and middle-income countries, compared to high-income countries. In this problematic, an intervention bioethics, in the proposal of Volnei Garrafa (2015), becomes, more than necessary, urgent.
Discussion/Conclusions/Contributions. The inequities exacerbated by the pandemic in maternal health cannot be normalized; on the contrary, they must be made visible and confronted from a bioethical approach within the framework of social justice.


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