Midwives are primarily considered as professionals with expertise in assisting women before, during, and after childbirth. Thus, the competencies for midwifery defined by International Confederation of revolve principally around assessment provision care to fetus/newborn/infant during pre-pregnancy antenatal periods, laborand birth, postnatal/postpartum periods.1 The availability skilled midwiv...

background decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and efficiency and bring healthcare and decision-making as close as possible to where people live and work. fiji has attempted two approaches to decentralisation. the current approach refl...

background and objectives: quality of work life is an increasingly important organizational factor in health facilities. most studies on quality of work life in hospitals have been conducted in developed countries. the few studies performed in developing countries have targeted low- and middle-performance hospitals, and they have not explored the relationship between quality of work life and ot...