Hacia una perspectiva de género en la evaluación de la calidad de la atención en los servicios de salud reproductiva

Abstract

The need for integrating gender perspective into the government politics and programs of our country has been acknowledged since the commitments agreed at the Population and Development International Conference carried out in El Cairo (1994) and in the Fourth Women International Conference in Pekin (1995), which have derived recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) for the member countries to accomplish such commitments.

In México, there is little research evaluating sexual and reproductive health services attention quality from a gender perspective. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out new studies using this focus and to implement new ways for evaluating care quality in such services that include indicators built up from the gender view, and taking in account qualitative methodologies, surpassing the managerial and normative character focused on outcomes and whose orientation not only has to do with the demographic goals relative to their effectiveness in the use of contraceptive methods and on fertility levels reached. Also needed are more human assessment strategies for analyzing quality social dimension starting  from the exercise of health rights in general, and from the sexual and reproductive rights in particular, and that consider the person as an integral being .