MEDICALIZATION OF PREGNANCY
Research goal - to identify essence, structure and social risk of medicalization of pregnancy in the context of interaction of the main participants: obstetricians gynecologists, pharmaceutists, patients. And to develop recommendations for the prevention of expansion of the medicalization of pregnancy. Materials and methods. The medical social examination 120 pregnant women, 300 women after the delivery, 50 doctors and 100 pharmaceutists. The study was conducted on the basis of health facilities of Volgograd region. Results and conclusions. Established that pregnant women (53,3 %) are passive agents of medicalization. Health departments should preparea information about drugs used during pregnancy indicating the relative risk for mother and fetus. To reduce the risk to mother and fetus during pregnancy is necessary to improve drug provision based on evidence based medicine.