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Accessing local support online: Mothers' experiences of local Breastfeeding Support Facebook groups

Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2021
The importance of support to breastfeeding success is well established, as are the difficulties many mothers face in accessing the support they need. With the majority of UK mothers now accessing social media for support, Breastfeeding Support Facebook ...
Holly Morse, Amy Brown
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the Maya midwife as sacred specialist: a Guatemalan case [PDF]

American Ethnologist, 1975
Midwives in San Pedro la Laguna, like shamans, are ritual specialists who enjoy high status, despite the subordinate position of women as a class. To account for the midwives' elevated status, a five‐point explanation is offered: (1) the role is highly professionalized, (2) requiring that incumbents be drawn from the pool of married women in their ...
LOIS PAUL, BENJAMIN D. PAUL
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Screening Isn’t Enough: A Call to Integrate Behavioral Health Providers in Women’s Health and Perinatal Care Settings

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2020
This paper aims to enhance the current understanding of integrated mental health services in the United States and how they can be better incorporated in perinatal and women’s health specialty care from the perspective of a behavioral health provider ...
Cara M. C. English
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Nursing competences in the interdisciplinary model of rehabilitation among patients after stroke

Rehabilitacja Medyczna, 2020
Nursing is an independent medical profession, the essence of which is providing health services as well as teaching, conducting research, managing nurses and midwife teams, and working in other capacities related to health care.
Joan na Białkowska, Magdalena Osowicka-Kondratowicz   +1 more
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Are the labour rooms of primary healthcare facilities capable of providing basic delivery and newborn services? A cross-sectional study

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021
Objectives: The study aimed to assess the functionality of labour rooms by evaluating the labour room infrastructure with reference to the standard guidelines, the status of the availability of human resources, the availability of essential equipment and
Divyata Sachan, Deepak Kumar, Abhinav Gangwar, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Sandip Kumar, Sushil Kumar Shukla, Dhiraj Kumar Srivastava, Pradip Kharya, Prashant Kumar Bajpai, Pooja Pathak, Tamma Raja Rao   +10 more
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Perinatal mental disorders in Switzerland : prevalence estimates and use of mental-health services [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Perinatal mental disorders (PMDs) are the most common complication of pregnancy and the first postpartum year. Since PMD prevalence and use of mental-health services by perinatal women in Switzerland are unknown, we analysed existing health ...
Bachmann, Nicole, Berger, Anke, Cignacco, Eva, Erdin, Rebekka, Oelhafen, Stephan, Reich, Oliver, Signorell, Andri   +6 more
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A task-sharing intervention for prepartum common mental disorders: Feasibility, acceptability and responses in a South African sample

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2020
Background: Peripartum common mental disorders (CMD) are highly prevalent in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) such as South Africa. With limited public mental health resources, task sharing approaches to treatment are showing promise.
Maxine Spedding, Dan J. Stein, Tracey Naledi, Bronwyn Myers, Pim Cuijpers, Katherine Sorsdahl   +5 more
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Recurrent miscarriage and infertility: a national service evaluation

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2023
The appropriate clinical care of women/couples with infertility experiencing recurrent miscarriage (RM) is overlooked in international guidelines. We sought to evaluate care provision for women/couples with RM and infertility across public (19 clinics ...
Laura Linehan, Marita Hennessy, Keelin O’Donoghue   +2 more
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NHS reforms and the working lives of midwives and physiotherapists [PDF]

, 2007
From 2000 the NHS was subjected to a series of far reaching reforms, the purposes of which were to increase the role of the primary care sector in commissioning and providing services, promote healthier life styles, reduce health inequality, and improve ...
Bullock, A., Burchell, B., Konzelmann, Suzanne J., Mankelow, R., Wilkinson, F.   +4 more
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The human resource implications of improving financial risk protection for mothers and newborns in Zimbabwe [PDF]

, 2013
Peer reviewedPublisher ...
A Chikanda, A Chikanda, Africa Health Workforce Observatory, Barbara McPake, C Chasokela, D Auret, D Makuto, D Sanders, EQUINET, Global Observatory, Government of Zimbabwe, Government of Zimbabwe, GoZ, Health Service Board, Health Service Board, J Campbell, J Herbst, J Osika, L Bijlmakers, M Clemens, Malvern Munjoma, Ministry of Health, MJ Chimbari, N Gupta, O Mudyarabikwa, P Manga, R Hecht, R Yates, S Witter, Shungu Munyati, Sophie Witter, ST Agere, Tim Ensor, UNFPA MoHCW, UNICEF, UNICEF, UNICEF, UNICEF, Wilson Mashange, World Bank, World Bank, World Health Organisation, Yotamu Chirwa, Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) and ICF International, Zimbabwe Workforce Observatory, ZIMSTAT   +45 more
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