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objectives: to identify the factors associated to the quality of care and possible predisposition to inequities in labor care, as of social-demographic and obstetrical characteristics of women cared for in two hospitals associated to the single health system in the city of maring芍-paran芍. methods: cross-sectional study, performed by researching hospital handbooks and by interviewing 569 women in labor. seven quality indicators classified the assistance into excellent, good, fair and insufficient. the chi-square test was used to establish the association among variables. results: the women were young, had fixed partners, full high school education, no paying jobs and a low socioeconomic level. inequality in care was stressed by the differentiated offer in procedures that qualify care, determined by individual, contextual factors and, in particular, related to assistance practices. colnclusion: three characteristics made up the profile of the parturients who benefitted from the most qualified healthcare: being under 19 years of age, having full high school education and having had no previous caesarian section.
