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Siberi eestlaste lapse sünniga seotud kombestik ja sünnituslood [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2023
To study the childbirth customs and stories of Siberian Estonians, I used conversations and interviews conducted in various Siberian Estonian communities during the fieldwork of the Estonian Folklore Archives between 1991 and 2013, as well as the ...
Anu Korb
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Who Delivers without Water? A Multi Country Analysis of Water and Sanitation in the Childbirth Environment.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Background and objectivesHygiene during childbirth is essential to the health of mothers and newborns, irrespective of where birth takes place.
Giorgia Gon, María Clara Restrepo-Méndez, Oona M R Campbell, Aluísio J D Barros, Susannah Woodd, Lenka Benova, Wendy J Graham   +6 more
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Determinants of place of delivery among women in indigenous communities of western India: A mixed-methods exploratory study [PDF]

Journal of Preventive and Complementary Medicine
Background: Disparities in maternal and child health indicators in India's tribal regions are concerning, characterized by a high prevalence of home deliveries, which are linked to adverse obstetric outcomes, including maternal complications and ...
Priti Solanky, Hitesh Shah
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Safe birth in cultural safety in southern Mexico: a pragmatic non-inferiority cluster-randomised controlled trial

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Plain English summary In many Indigenous communities, traditional midwives support mothers during pregnancy, childbirth, and some days afterwards. Research involving traditional midwives has focused on training them in Western techniques and redefining ...
Iván Sarmiento, Sergio Paredes-Solís, Abraham de Jesús García, Nadia Maciel Paulino, Felipe René Serrano de los Santos, José Legorreta-Soberanis, Germán Zuluaga, Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson   +8 more
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Being in the zone during physiological birth: a comparative study of hospital and home birth environments

Frontiers in Global Women's Health
IntroductionA flow experience typically occurs when the challenge of a demanding physical activity aligns with an individual's abilities, resulting in a sense of empowerment and fulfillment.
Orli Dahan, Alon Goldberg
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Does a referral from home to hospital affect satisfaction with childbirth? A cross-national comparison

BMC Health Services Research, 2007
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 ...
Gouwy Anneleen, Christiaens Wendy, Bracke Piet   +2 more
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Limitations to institutional delivery among Ashaninka mothers of the Peruvian Amazon

Medwave
Introduction According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2.8 million mothers and newborns die each year from preventable causes, highlighting inequalities in access to quality healthcare services.
Edith Paola Mejía Mamani, Katty Mendoza-Mamani, Guicela Palza-Portugal, Olga Choque Chura, Yubitza Del Lourdes Pérez Aguilar, Ana Mariela Gonzales Melchor   +5 more
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Are women deciding against home births in low and middle income countries?

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundAlthough there is evidence to tracking progress towards facility births within the UN Millennium Development Goals framework, we do not know whether women are deciding against home birth over their reproductive lives.
Fiifi Amoako Johnson, Sabu S Padmadas, Zoë Matthews   +2 more
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Hidden in the Labour Market: An Intersectional Latent Class Analysis of Discouraged Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
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Testing the Social Investment Principle Around Childbirth: Little Evidence for Personality Maturation Before and After Becoming a Parent

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea.
Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht, Christian Kandler   +2 more
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