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Continuing midwifery education beyond graduation : student midwives' awareness of continuous professional development [PDF]

, 2017
Midwifery education plays an important role in educating graduates about engaging in continuous professional development (CPD) but there is a lack of empirical research analysing student midwives’ awareness of CPD beyond graduation.
Embo, Mieke, Valcke, Martin
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“It’s what midwifery is all about”: Western Australian midwives’ experiences of being ‘with woman’ during labour and birth in the known midwife model

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019
Background The phenomenon of being ‘with woman’ is fundamental to midwifery as it underpins its philosophy, relationships and practices. There is an identified gap in knowledge around the ‘with woman’ phenomenon from the perspective of midwives providing
Zoe Bradfield, Yvonne Hauck, Michelle Kelly, Ravani Duggan   +3 more
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Cost-effectiveness of silver diamine fluoride for the prevention and control of early childhood caries: a scoping review

Boletín Médico del Hospital Infantil de México
Early childhood caries (ECC) is the presence of one or more decayed, missing, or filled teeth in children up to 71 months of age. Among the recommendations proposed by the World Health Organization to counteract this condition is the application of ...
Carmen D. Macedo-Jaramillo, Estefany García-Cruz, Paulina De La Portilla-Robles, Daniela I. Guadarrama-García   +3 more
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MacArthur Foundation's Initiative to Promote Midwifery in Mexico, Complete Baseline Report [PDF]

, 2017
This baseline report is a first step in the evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation's initiative to improve maternal and reproductive health in Mexico by helping to institutionalize professional midwifery.
Kimberli Keith-Brown, Lucille C. Atkin
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South African midwife specialists’ experiences in the utilisation of their knowledge and skills

Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Background: Midwifery specialisation was introduced in 1993 as a response to escalating maternal and neonatal mortalities and shortage of physicians in rural parts of South Africa.
Kagiso P. Tukisi, Zelda Janse van Rensburg, Wanda Jacobs   +2 more
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Pay the midwife! The cost of delivery in nineteenth-century rural West Flanders: the case of midwife Joanna Mestdagh

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2018
This article focuses on the determinants of the economic cost of at-home childbirth in Flanders in the nineteenth century. Literature on the remuneration of medical professionals in the nineteenth century is sparse. Yet the few existing studies show that
Christa Matthys
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THE CORRELATION BEETWEEN MOTHER'S NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND PARITY WITH THE INCIDENT OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT (LBW) AT A PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER SURABAYA

Indonesian Midwifery and Health Sciences Journal
Background: One of the highest causative factors of neonatal death in Indonesia is low birth weight (LBW), around 7,150 (35.3%) cases. Even though the trend of LBW incidents in East Java is decreasing, in the city of Surabaya itself the death rate due to
Fransiska Niken Hapsari, Astika Gita Ningrum, Muhammad Ardian Cahya Laksana, Widati Fatmaningrum   +3 more
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Characteristics of patients receiving midwife-led prenatal care in Canada: results from the Maternity Experiences Survey (MES)

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of women in Canada who received care from a midwife during their prenatal period. Methods The findings of this study were drawn from the Maternity Experiences Survey (MES), which was a
Peri Abdullah, Sabrina Gallant, Naseem Saghi, Alison Macpherson, Hala Tamim   +4 more
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Midwifery manager’s experiences of knowledge and skills utilization by midwife specialists in the public health sector of South Africa

BMC Nursing
Introduction Midwife specialists are trained professionals who render low and high-risk maternity and neonatal healthcare services across the globe. A workforce shortage of trained obstetricians and neonatologists in the rural parts of South Africa led ...
Kagiso P. Tukisi, Zelda Janse van Rensburg, Wanda Jacobs   +2 more
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Chytridiomycosis related mortality in a midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) in Belgium [PDF]

, 2010
Chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, contributes to amphibian declines worldwide. Recently, the fungus has shown to be widely distributed in Belgium and the Netherlands, although no clinical cases of the disease have ...
Brutyn, Melanie, Ducatelle, Richard, Haesebrouck, Freddy, Maes, Sofie, Martel, An, Muijsers, Mariska, Pasmans, Frank, Van Rooij, Pascale   +7 more
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