objective: to analyze the trend in maternal mortality ratio in a tertiary care centre and the effect of various maternity schemes on it. materials and methods:  retrospective analysis of all maternal deaths occurring in the guru gobind singh medical college & hospital, faridkot, punjab, india was done from jan 2010 to dec 2012. every maternal death was scrutinized from various aspects like dire...

This article focuses on how maternal employment in nonstandard schedules at night, on the weekends, or that rotate on a weekly basis influence preschoolers’ behavioral outcomes. Examining low-income working mothers and their children aged 2 – 4 years from the Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study (N 1⁄4 206), we find that maternal nonstandard schedules are associated with negative...

OBJECTIVE To review collaboration between child welfare and drug-abuse fields in providing treatment to mothers who abuse drugs and maltreat their children. METHODS Literature review of studies examining effects of maternal drug abuse on parenting skills and outcomes of interventions for both maternal drug abuse and parenting skills. RESULTS Parenting skills differ between mothers who do an...

This research aims to discuss Sulianti Saroso as one of the important figures in development maternal reproductive health Indonesia. Specifically, this is focused on period 1950-1961 based Saroso's many ideas related which she pioneered while serving Head Maternal and Child Welfare Indonesia during that period. To understand her thoughts, author used several primary sources form ego documents i...

The objective of this study was to develop a transparent, comprehensive, and flexible model for each trait for the formulation of breeding objectives for sow traits in swine breeding programs. Economic values were derived from submodels considering a typical Australian pig production system. Differences in timing and expressions of traits were accounted for to derive economic weights that were ...

Despite a tremendous increase in financial resources, many countries are not on track to achieve the child and maternal mortality targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. It is commonly argued that two main social factors - improved democratic governance and aggregate income - will ultimately lead to progress in reducing child and maternal mortality. However, these two facto...

The body condition constraint and the experience condition constraint hypotheses have both been proposed to account for differences in reproductive success between multiparous (experienced) and primiparous (first-time) mothers. However, because primiparous mothers are typically characterized by both inferior body condition and lack of experience when compared to multiparous mothers, interpretin...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of family welfare index (FWI) and maternal education on the probability of infant death. DESIGN A population based multistage stratified clustered survey. SETTING Women of reproductive age in Indonesia between 1983-1997. DATA SOURCES The 1997 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey. MAIN RESULTS Infant mortality was associated with FWI and maternal...

BACKGROUND Although it is now widely recognized that reductions in maternal mortality and improvements in women's health cannot be achieved through simple, vertical strategies, few programs have provided successful models for how to integrate services into a comprehensive program for maternal health. We report our experience in rural Lesotho, where Partners In Health (PIH) in partnership with t...