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Prevalence of and factors associated with home births in western Nepal: Findings from the baseline of a community-based prospective cohort study

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health
Problem considered: Home birth in a resource-poor setting such as Nepal is a maternal and newborn survival risk factor. Although the proportion of home births in Nepal has decreased substantially over the last two decades, the progress has yet to be ...
Vishnu Khanal, Sangita Bista, Shiva Raj Mishra   +2 more
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Delivery of home-based postpartum contraception in rural Guatemalan women: a cluster-randomized trial protocol

Trials, 2019
Background Postpartum contraception is important to prevent unintended and closely spaced pregnancies following childbirth. Methods This study is a cluster-randomized trial of communities in rural Guatemala where women receive ante- and postnatal care ...
Margo S. Harrison, Saskia Bunge-Montes, Claudia Rivera, Andrea Jimenez-Zambrano, Gretchen Heinrichs, Sharon Scarbro, Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga, Antonio Bolanos, Edwin Asturias, Stephen Berman, Jeanelle Sheeder   +10 more
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Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

Childbirth at Home or in the Hospital: a Prospective Study of Decision-Making

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology, 1985
This study investigated the decision-making process for birth location. Ten women planning hospital birth were matched with 10 women planning home births with respect to several demographic characteristics. Subjects were interviewed in the third trimester of pregnancy about their choice of birth setting, perception of risk for home and hospital ...
Melissa Schiff, John J. Laferla
openaire   +1 more source

The Impact of “Mother‐Friendly Care” Accreditations on Patient Choice: Evidence From Brazil

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the impact of Brazil's “Mother‐Friendly Care” accreditation program on hospital choice. Using administrative data on births in the Brazilian public health system from 2008–2019, we estimate a nested logit demand model that allows for differential substitution patterns based on existing Baby‐Friendly Hospital Initiative (IHAC ...
Cici McNamara, Felipe Rocha Campos
wiley   +1 more source

O PARTO HUMANIZADO E O SEU IMPACTO NA ASSISTÊNCIA A SAÚDE

Revista Educação em Saúde, 2015
Objective: Analysis over the humanized process of birth and it’s vicissitudes that approach both physiological and psychosocial aspects and also the technochratic specifications of it’s operation.
Laiane Pereira Barros, Chrissia Lorrany Tocchio de Souza, Leôncio de Farias Gonçalves, Letícia Noronha Gonzaga, Thaís de Andrade Paula, Andreia Moreira da Silva   +5 more
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“Your English Sounds Almost British”: Everyday Linguicism and Racialized Subjectivity of an International Student in Hong Kong

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how everyday linguicism and racism shape the academic and social experiences of international students in Hong Kong, focusing on the racialized subjectivity of a South Asian graduate student. Although research on international students has mainly focused on Western higher education, little attention has been paid to the ...
Pramod K. Sah
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Factors that affect Childbirth Choices of People living positively with HIV/AIDS in Abia State of Nigeria

Oman Medical Journal, 2010
Objectives: Poor interpersonal relationships with women especially those living positively with HIV/AIDS can make them take risks that would expose their new born and others to infection during childbirth. The factors that influence childbirth choices of
Ezinne E. Enwereji, Kelechi O. Enwereji
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Temporary childbirth migration and maternal health care in India.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundWomen in South Asia often return to their natal home during pregnancy, for childbirth, and stay through the postpartum period-potentially impacting access to health care and health outcomes in this important period.
Nadia Diamond-Smith, Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Sumeet Patil, Lia Fernald, Purnima Menon, Dilys Walker, Alison M El Ayadi   +6 more
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