In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and babies. Written for mothers and fathers, ...
This book gives clear and evidence-based guidelines on the identification and management of postnatal health problems (rather than on routine observations and examinations of blood pressure, temperature, uterine involution, lochia and perinuem). This approach allows carefully individualised care within a framework which covers both physical and ...
This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home-birth movement of the 1980's. Widely praised when it was first published in 1977, the book has now been expanded to bring the ...
Having a baby is an elemental human experience profound, even sacred to some women and their families. At the same time, it is a significant component of health care. The medical model of childbirth emphasizes the pathological potential of pregnancy and birth, while an alternative model championed by midwives focuses on the normalcy of pregnancy ...
This landmark study presents the first systematic feminist analysis of not only how childbirth is managed in America but why it is managed the way it is. How did women come to lose control of pregnancy and childbirth to a male-dominated medical profession? Are midwifery and home birth better alternatives for pregnant women? With implications far ...
Having a baby is an elemental human experience profound, even sacred to some women and their families. At the same time, it is a significant component of health care. The medical model of childbirth emphasizes the pathological potential of pregnancy and birth, while an alternative model championed by midwives focuses on the normalcy of pregnancy ...
Midwives are moving away from fragmented systems of care towards group practice, a system which encourages the use of their skills and realizes their full potential. The government's "Expert Maternity Report" not only recognizes the value of continuity of care, but formally advocates its use. This book provides midwives and managers with the ...
Mother and Child Health: Delivering the Services provides an overview of the services and programmes which provide mothers and their children with effective primary health care. The authors present a practical philosophy to guide health workers who organize and implement preventive and curative care for mothers and children, particularly in ...
For graduate students and professionals with an interest in maternal and child health. Maternal and Child Health covers the wide range of issues involved in meeting the needs of pregnant women, mothers, and children of all ages -- and learn the pros and cons on current services, policies, and social forces that directly influence these populations ...
This second edition updates the first with many new references and new material which includes the Winterton Report, the Midwives Act and new government proposals. It contains extended sections on postnatal maternal morbidity, neonatal morbidity, nutrition, social conditions, breast feeding and the philosophy underlying safe childbirth. This book ...
This thorough revision has important new topics such as the epidemic of obesity, efforts to reduce mother to child transmission of AIDS, new immunizations for child safety and more.
This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the United States, Canada and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. The essays focus on the practical side of "good" social science and "feminist-friendly" research. The text not only looks at maternity, but also the act of childbirth, with the ...
This text describes the key dimensions of the highly effective single room maternity care (SRMC) model, and helps providers implement it successfully. The model was designed to strengthen families, and to reduce operating costs while enhancing patient, provider, and family satisfaction. This volume describes the philosophy that drives SRMC, the ...
A recent Harris Poll revealed some disturbing aspects of the current state of health care provision for women and children. The poll dealt with issues as diverse as clincial examinations and communication between women and their doctors. Such issues, long ignored or under-appreciated by medical researchers, clinicians, and public policy makers, ...
This book is a practical guide to the CARE programme, a home visiting programme that aims to assess infants' growth, development and psycho--social transitions in their first year of life and that together with the Index of Need checklist aims to engage parents in risk assessment. It provides evidence--based research for the programme, and gives ...
This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply the latest scientific evidence to support and ...
This book provides an introduction to the sociological study of midwifery. The readings have been selected to highlight the interplay between midwifery and medicine, reflecting the medicalisation of childbirth. It highlights the major themes in both a historical and a current context, as well as western and non-western societies. Two major themes ...
This book considers the broad range of support given to mothers including social, psychological and clinical. It also looks at the provision of this service and how different models have been set up internationally to fulfil this important function. It brings together the latest research findings which will examine the nature of care that is ...
Skills guide for home nursing care of mothers and infants. Discusses Medicare and JCAHO standards, risk assessment, infection control, and more. Step-by-step coverage of essential skills. Outline format. Three-hole punched with perforated pages.
Mavis Kirkham brings together a team of authors to examine the relationship on which maternity care is based. Examining this relationship from a variety of different perspectives brings insights which should help midwives to relate better to mothers, thus enhancing the quality of their care.
This report addresses the issue of what publicly-supported programs and external assistance from the Bank and other agencies can do to accelerate attainment of targets such as reducing infant mortality by two-thirds. The evidence presented here relates to Bangladesh, a country which has made spectacular progress but needs to maintain momentum in ...
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