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to assess the feasibility of obstetric offering community-led maternity care to most women, both those assessed to be at low obstetric risk and those with complicated pregnancies at ‘booking’. Community-led care is defined as appropriate care by community midwives and general practitioners during pregnancy, birth and the puerperium, with routine hospital care kept to a minimum.observational study...
Heterosexual transmission continues to be the most common route for HIV acquisition in women. Until female controlled prevention methods are comfortable, economical and available, women will continue to be at risk from HIV. Perinatal clinical trials utilising multiple therapies are presently underway and hopefully will further reduce transmission. Comprehensive prenatal care and conservative obstetric...
to investigate the views of the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (ENB) Professional Midwifery Advisory Network (PMAN) members about the assessment of competence in midwifery.initial questionnaire followed by a group discussion of a summary of the data from the completed questionnaires.54 PMAN midwives representing education, management, research, practice and supervision;...
In this paper the author questions whether a medical model is sufficient for our understanding of the complexity of childbirth, and for the provision of high quality maternity care. The importance of a psychological perspective is stressed by describing the adaptive processes during pregnancy and birth, and by analysing the impact of certain medical procedures on women's experiences, such as ultrasound...
1) to provide a descriptive analysis of women's views of the antenatal care provided in the study centre; 2) to identify which aspects of antenatal care were important to women; 3) to assess whether or not women ‘booked’ for delivery at the study centre would welcome the formal introduction of a midwifery-led service and 4) to audit sources of satisfaction and dissatisfaction identified in the survey...
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