Determining Mothers’ Perception around Health Reproduction Services in Hospital in the Commune of Abobo, Ivory Coast

Abstract

This chapter aims to understand the perceptions that structure women's relationship with reproductive health services based on an influence matrix. Health is a complete state of general well-being, physical as well as mental and social, of the human person in everything that concerns the genital system, its functions and its functioning and not just the absence of disease or infirmity^[1]. According to this viewpoint, every person, regardless of origin or living environment, must have access to health care in accordance with the Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care issued in 1978. However, the current study demonstrates that reproductive health services in Côte d'Ivoire have been heavily criticized. On that basis, this paper examines the types of perceptions mobilized by women around reproductive health services in hospitals in Côte d'Ivoire. Data collection focused on observation, individual and group interviews. The results of the study indicate that several factors are determining in the accomplishment of tasks related to the prenatal consultation, in particular the love of the role of midwife and of the doctor is essential. However, despite the free policy advocated by the government, use of prenatal health services is low and even non-existent in some places due to the high cost of consultation fees, particularly for vulnerable populations. The poor reception, especially the insults from midwives, push women not to visit health centers. In the opinion of those interviewed “the majority of midwives are the opposite of the clothes they wear”. The inadequate behavior of certain health workers has caused people to have a negative outlook on production health services. The work describes the social resources that structure and legitimize women's relationship with reproductive health services as well as the modalities of recourse or not that this implies.