Developing a Core Competency Model and Educational Framework for Primary Maternity Services: A national consensus approach [PDF]
Background: An appropriately educated and competent workforce is crucial to an effective health care system. The National Health Workforce Taskforce (now Health Workforce Australia) and the Maternity Services Inter-Jurisdictional Committee funded a ...
Brodie, PM +5 more
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Introduction The comparative efficacy of pulmonary surfactant in the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome in preterm infants remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of different pulmonary surfactant in the treatment of respiratory ...
Caihong Qiu +4 more
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Staff experiences of Providing Maternity Services in Rural Southern Tanzania -- A Focus on Equipment, Drug and Supply Issues. [PDF]
The poor maintenance of equipment and inadequate supplies of drugs and other items contribute to the low quality of maternity services often found in rural settings in low- and middle-income countries, and raise the risk of adverse maternal outcomes ...
A Strauss +35 more
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Stigma and maternity care [PDF]
A current priority within maternity care is to identify and support women with mental health problems and stigma is a major barrier to achieving this. Stigma has its roots in difference.
Fiona, Alderdice, Laura, Kelly
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Maternal fat free mass during pregnancy is associated with birth weight
Background The relationship between maternal body compositions and birth weight was not definite. Fat Mass (FM) and Fat Free Mass (FFM) can accurately reflect the maternal body fat compositions and have been considered as better predictors of birth ...
Yanxia Wang +5 more
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LEADER OF THE MA TERNITYCARE: DOCTORS OR MIDWIVES
Technology of delivery of health care for developing countries is not a resolved issue. Moreover, maternity care differs from other areas of health care in many ways.
R R Wagle
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A Novel Anti-Infective Peptide BCCY-1 With Immunomodulatory Activities
Antibiotic resistance has been considered to be a global threat which underscores the need to develop novel anti-infective therapeutics. Modulation of innate immunity by synthetic peptides is an attractive strategy to overcome this circumstance.
Jinyang Cai +6 more
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Rural women’s perspectives of maternity services in the midland region of New Zealand [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: Rural women face many challenges with regards to maternity services. Many rural primary birthing facilities in New Zealand have closed. The Lead Maternity Carer (LMC) model of maternity care, introduced in 1990, has moved provision of rural
Gibbons, Veronique +3 more
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Access and utilisation of maternity care for disabled women who experience domestic abuse:a systematic review [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Although disabled women are significantly more likely to experience domestic abuse during pregnancy than non-disabled women, very little is known about how maternity care access and utilisation is affected by the co-existence of disability ...
AC Huth-Bocks +64 more
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Identifying better systems design in Australian maternity care: a boundary critique analysis [PDF]
This article examines the background and limitations of maternity care policy and provision in Australia using the Boundary Critique method from critical systems thinking.
Donnellan-Fernandez, Roslyn Elizabeth +3 more
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