ANOUA Adou Serge
Alassane Ouattara University
Title: Obstetric culture in the development of reproductive health
Biography
Biography: ANOUA Adou Serge
Abstract
Maternal and child health remains a current challenge in Ivory Coast because of high maternal and child mortality rates
in that country. This failure raises the limits of the biomedical sciences in reproductive health. In this field of health,
there is undeniably a life quality problem. This concern is shared by socio-anthropology. As a matter of fact, how can we
explain and understand the evolution of reproductive health problems in mothers and children? All the work carried out
revolves around the issue of "Obstetric culture and reproductive health". In other words, how can we explain and understand
obstetric culture as a major determinant in the development of reproductive health in Côte d'Ivoire? In this context, reflections
oriented through socio-anthropological research are constantly supported by the same precise thesis: "Taking into account
socio-cultural determinants specific to the communities in question, impeding the health of the mother-child couple, could
contribute to opening the communities studied to a safer motherhood". Starting from this fundamental aim, strategies for
reducing dramas by taking into account the cultural markers of communities can be identified as well as actions for behavioral
change can be planned. This orientation seems to us a hypothesis of possible solution to circumvent the epidemiological
monopoly underlying the approach in public health.