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Temporal Structuration: Negotiating Reproductive Timing in Urban China

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of temporal structuration to explain how actors engage temporal norms as social structures. Based on 64 life story interviews in Shenzhen and analysed through constructivist grounded theory, it examines reproductive timing in urban China, where marriage and childbearing are organised by a dense timetable ...
Xijia You
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical Issues in Childbirth

open access: yes, 1982
The obstetrical practices and hospital settings which are typical of American childbirth today give rise to a number of ethical issues. These issues include excessive and possibly harmful medical intervention spurred by an emphasis on new biomedical ...
Laslie, Adele E.
core   +1 more source

Long‐Term Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Combined With Electrical Stimulation Biofeedback Among Women With Symptomatic Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Randomised Controlled Trial

open access: yesBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine whether adding electrical stimulation (ES) biofeedback to supervised pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) provides additional long‐term benefit in prolapse anatomy among women with symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting A tertiary hospital in Beijing, China.
Min Li   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesClinical 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Conflicting Outcomes to Mutual Losses: How Punitive Responses to Problematic Substance Use Suppress Help‐Seeking and Cause Harm

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Problematic substance use (PSU) is a significant, inadequately managed people management challenge. Drawing on the conflicting outcomes and mutual losses perspectives on HRM and employee wellbeing, and using Job Demands‐Resources theory to explain underlying strain‐driven loss cycles, we examine factors shaping PSU and help‐seeking among 575 ...
Karen Maher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

O PARTO HUMANIZADO E O SEU IMPACTO NA ASSISTÊNCIA A SAÚDE

open access: yesRevista 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   +5 more
doaj  

Delivery of home-based postpartum contraception in rural Guatemalan women: a cluster-randomized trial protocol

open access: yesTrials, 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   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health impacts of public pawnshops in Industrialising Tokyo

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines whether expanded credit access through low‐interest small loans relaxed liquidity constraints among poor households and improved early‐life health in industrialising Tokyo. Using ward‐level panel data for 1927–1935, this study shows that public pawnshop lending was associated with 4% and 5% reductions in infant and foetal ...
Tatsuki Inoue
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesOman 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
doaj  

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