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Correlation between Fear of Childbirth and Childbirth Self-Efficacy during Labor

open access: yesClinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2022
Background: The research on fear of childbirth and childbirth self-efficacy of pregnant women in China mainly concentrates on the late pregnancy, and there is a lack of research on the psychology of women during labor. This study aimed to investigate the
Yue Huang   +5 more
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Developing and applying a 'living guidelines' approach to WHO recommendations on maternal and perinatal health

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2019
How should the WHO most efficiently keep its global recommendations up to date? In this article we describe how WHO developed and applied a ‘living guidelines’ approach to its maternal and perinatal health (MPH) recommendations, based on a systematic and
Anayda Portela   +7 more
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The microbiome seeding debate – let’s frame it around women-centred care

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2019
In a global culture that is increasingly interested in ecological interventions, probiotics, ‘friendly bacteria’, microbiome preservation/restoration and long-term health, there is growing awareness of the idea of seeding the vaginal microbiome in the ...
A.U. Lokugamage, S.D.C. Pathberiya
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Thermal imaging applications in neonatal care: a scoping review

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019
Background In neonatal care, assessment of the temperature of the neonate is essential to confirm on-going health, and as an early signal of potential pathology.
Anastasia Topalidou   +3 more
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“Engaging with birth stories in pregnancy: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of women’s experiences across two generations”

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background The birth story has been widely understood as a crucial source of knowledge about childbirth. What has not been reported is the effect that birth stories may have on primigravid women’s understandings of birth.
Lesley Kay   +3 more
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Intrapartum Ultrasound in Maternal Lateral Position. A Prospective Observational Study

open access: yesClinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2022
Background: Intrapartum ultrasound (ITU) techniques have been described only in maternal semi-recumbent position. However, other birthing positions, such as side-lying, are more comfortable for many mothers. The present study aimed to test the hypothesis
Marcos Javier Cuerva   +3 more
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Humaniser l’accouchement au Bénin ? Retour sur l’échec d’un projet de la coopération japonaise

open access: yesAnthropologie & Santé, 2022
Since the 1970s, international activist movements have denounced a medical and techno-centric approach to birth. In response to this “techno-bio-medicalization” of birth, the concept of humanized childbirth emerged in the 1990s in Latin America and then ...
Clémence Schantz   +2 more
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Maternal gift economy framework for addressing obstetric violence.

open access: yes(Con)textos, 2022
The present article analyzes the economic aspects of maternity care, proposing the maternal gift economy theory as a possible framework for addressing the economic and structural causes of obstetric violence.
Elena Skoko
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diegetic Pregnancy in Jesse Greengrass’s Sight (2018), or the Ethics of Building Bodies in(to) Literature

open access: yesSillages Critiques, 2023
Although they have often been used as metaphors for the act of writing, pregnancy and childbirth have a long history of being left out of literature itself, especially as diegetic events in the novel.
Maxence Gouleau
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