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https://read.qxmd.com/read/33622337/understanding-the-roles-of-community-health-workers-in-improving-perinatal-health-equity-in-rural-uttar-pradesh-india-a-qualitative-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrea K Blanchard, Shahnaz Ansari, Rajni Rajput, Tim Colbourn, Tanja A J Houweling, Shajy Isac, John Anthony, Audrey Prost
BACKGROUND: Despite substantial reductions in perinatal deaths (stillbirths and early neonatal deaths), India's perinatal mortality rates remain high, both nationally and in individual states. Rates are highest among disadvantaged socio-economic groups. To address this, India's National Health Mission has trained community health workers called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to counsel and support women by visiting them at home before and after childbirth. We conducted a qualitative study to explore the roles of ASHAs' home visits in improving equity in perinatal health between socio-economic position groups in rural Uttar Pradesh (UP), India...
February 23, 2021: International Journal for Equity in Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20971540/birth-choices-in-timor-leste-a-framework-for-understanding-the-use-of-maternal-health-services-in-low-resource-settings
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kayli Wild, Lesley Barclay, Paul Kelly, Nelson Martins
The high rate of maternal mortality in Timor-Leste is a persistent problem which has been exacerbated by the long history of military occupation and ongoing political crises since independence in 1999. It is similar to other developing countries where there have been slow declines in maternal mortality despite 20 years of Safe Motherhood interventions. The national Ministry of Health, United Nations (UN) agencies and non-government organisations (NGOs) have attempted to reduce maternal mortality by enacting policies and interventions to increase the number of births in health centres and hospitals...
December 2010: Social Science & Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/19906280/-normal-natural-good-or-good-enough-birth-examining-the-concepts
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Susanne Darra
In the face of increasing intervention in childbirth, 'normal birth' is currently being promoted by the World Health Organization, national governments, professional bodies and other organisations throughout the world. This paper takes a postmodernist stance and explores the idea of the 'normal' before going on to analyse normal childbirth, referring to concepts of the normal and the natural. It refers to historical developments in childbearing and lay organisations along with research relating to women's views of childbirth, to question the appropriateness of using 'normal' to describe the very individual experiences of childbirth...
December 2009: Nursing Inquiry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/17626631/does-a-referral-from-home-to-hospital-affect-satisfaction-with-childbirth-a-cross-national-comparison
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COMPARATIVE STUDY
Wendy Christiaens, Anneleen Gouwy, Piet Bracke
BACKGROUND: The Belgian and Dutch societies present many similarities but differ with regard to the organisation of maternity care. The Dutch way of giving birth is well known for its high percentage of home births and its low medical intervention rate. In contrast, home births in Belgium are uncommon and the medical model is taken for granted. Dutch and Belgian maternity care systems are compared with regard to the influence of being referred to specialist care during pregnancy or intrapartum while planning for a home birth...
2007: BMC Health Services Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/16150523/subverting-the-assembly-line-childbirth-in-a-free-standing-birth-centre
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Denis Walsh
Across the world, concern is being expressed about the rising rates of birth interventions. As a result, there is growing interest in alternative organisational models of maternity care. Most of the research to date on these models has examined clinical outcomes. This paper, discussing key findings from an ethnographic study of a free-standing birth centre in the UK, explores organisational dimensions to care. It suggests that the advantages of scale have been under-recognised by policy makers to date. The birth centre displays organisational characteristics that contrast with the dominant Fordist/Taylorist model of large maternity units...
March 2006: Social Science & Medicine
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