Derecho a la salud materno infantil para las mujeres privadas de la libertad en instituciones penitenciarias

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To identify and analyze the structural and particular elements that promote and impede the right to health of women deprived of liberty (PPL) located in the city of Bogotá, according to their own experiences. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Qualitative research with a socio-historical approach. The literature review and the documentary analysis is related to the right to health of the LPP, criminal policy, sexual and reproductive health and the relationship between mother and child. Semi-structured interviews are conducted with women between 18 and 65 years of age, post-pregnant or in a state of intramural and extramural confinement. The population is a theoretical sample, with a size to be defined according to the saturation of the analytical categories. Additionally, experts are interviewed that contrast their knowledge with the experiences of the participants. RESULTS: The conceptualization of the right of health for women PPL is reduced to the access and quality of medical services provided in detention centers. In the exercise of claiming this right, self-injurious actions and stigmatizing environments are presented, however, there are advances in the construction of various manifestations of social fabric by the inmates. CONCLUSIONS: Health is an indivisible and integrating right, aspects such as overcrowding, food, stress and social stigmatization influence the good living of people. Generate strategies of self-care and prevention in mental, physical and social health, contribute to the guarantee of the right to Health, especially the mother and child.