Estela Arcos currently works at researcher associated to projects, Universidad de Playa Ancha of Valparaiso, Chile. Estela does research in Obstetrics, Primary Care and Public Health. Their current project is Mujeres inmigrantes: un estudio interdisciplinario desde las Ciencias Sociales y la Salud Pública, sponsored by the Research Department of the University of Playa Ancha, Valparaiso de Chile.
In Chile the social inequality is the result of the accumulation and concentration of income, wealth and property coming from the prevailing neoliberal model in the chilean economy. Under this model, persistent gaps in basic living standards, precarious assets, disparities in health, and inequalities in well-being, employment, treatment and safety of people have been configured. Using the case study methodology, evidence of the phenomenon is presented, making an analysis of the expression of poverty and other social determinants in the results of the reproductive health of socially vulnerable women. Scientific literature on the situation of exclusion and invisibility of subgroups of women who have experienced domestic violence, unplanned pregnancy, early motherhood, migration and ethnic status is analyzed. In turn, the results of effective transfers of health and social benefits to women in social adversity are mentioned in the management of health policy and the social protection system. Finally, a reflection is presented on the need for innovation in the processes of human capital formation in health and social science, and as a response, strategies are proposed to address it to from the complexity of the phenomenon of vulnerability and inequality in reproductive health analyzed.
Part of the book: Empowering Midwives and Obstetric Nurses