Community empowerment is very important to do with the aim that people become independent, in sense they have potential be able solve problems face, and are meet their needs by not depending lives on outside assistance, both government non-government organizations. Midwives Village individual characteristics mostly aged less than 35 years, married status, Diploma-III education, a working period...

Background: Midwives are the health professionals responsible for educating public and recognizing nutritional issues in infants. The use of MUAC scale is a straightforward highly sensitive approach detecting problems toddlers. toddlers anticipated to provide an independent technique abnormalities toddlers, particularly malnutrition.Objective: To describe knowledge midwives Aceh Province on det...

Before introducing a more comprehensive screen such as plasma chromatography, with its potential to detect 20 amino-acid disorders-an advantage over screening methods which detect only phenylketonuria-the greatly increased problems of organization and the effect on the community, midwives, paediatric services, and laboratory should be considered. The three years' experience in Birmingham showed...

Before Department of Health directives to offer HIV and hepatitis B (HBV) testing to all pregnant women, there was little such screening in Cornwall. Through a multiagency collaborative approach a new antenatal screening programme for HIV/HBV has been introduced with high uptake in the first year (HIV 92% and HBV 93%). We also report the findings of a questionnaire survey of community midwives ...

BACKGROUND Caseload midwifery reduces childbirth interventions and increases women's satisfaction with care. It is therefore important to understand the impact of caseload midwifery on midwives working in and alongside the model. While some studies have reported higher satisfaction for caseload compared with standard care midwives, others have suggested a need to explore midwives' work-life bal...

Preceptorship is one aspect of continuous professional development which is vital to support healthcare professionals in the delivery of safe, effective, person-centred care. This article outlines the various aspects of preceptorship for nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nurses in Northern Ireland. It is hoped that the elements within it have transferability across other h...

Health technology The use of domiciliary care for pregnant women at risk of adverse outcomes. Enhanced domiciliary care comprised home visits from community midwives and domiciliary foetal monitoring, where the results of a cardiotocogram (CTG), recorded in the home, were transmitted to the hospital by telephone using modems. The frequency of surveillance was not specified in the study protocol...

One of the strategies to improve mothers' well-being mothers and new-borns is optimizing first 1000 days after birth starting from preparation for pregnancy. By pregnancy preparation, are expected have a healthy which will affect outcome their The community service aimed educate public, including health care staff in Indonesia as main providers maternal order assist partners preparing output th...

BACKGROUND Approaches to addressing the shortage of midwives are a great need especially in Sub-Saharan Africa including Tanzania. The midwifery shortage in Tanzania consists of two major causes; the first is the shortage of pre-service nursing training and the second is the low rate of retention as it is difficult to sustain midwives' career motivations. Lack of opportunities for career develo...