Efectividad del marco jurídico que protege a la mujer gestante perteneciente al pueblo indígena Wayúu del evento de la mortalidad materna

Abstract

The Wayúu are a people with a clear vision regarding the development of women’s lives, which includes the process of gestation, and consequently have woven around it a complete worldview that includes beliefs associated with midwifery, to ancestral medicine and its formation to be a fundamental pillar in its community; however, the need has arisen for these knowledge to be transferred, in order to complement the creation of public policies and the formulation of strategies that seek to mitigate epidemiological events such as maternal mortality, which represent a serious problem within the health system.

Therefore, this research analyzes the legal framework that is developed in the field of public health, specifically focused on indigenous peoples and from the perspective of the prevention of maternal mortality, in order to point out the effectiveness it has had in the most recent context of the Wayúu indigenous people, from the data obtained between 2018 and 2021; therefore initially presents a contextualization around maternal mortality, the gestation process and the maternal mortality figures in this community, and then delve into an analysis of the provisions of the Political Constitution, international conventions and treaties, norms and jurisprudence in this area, with the purpose of determining whether they have taken into account the social and cultural framework that characterizes this indigenous people.