New graduate nurse-midwives are looking for a bridge between their education and clinical practice, whereas birth centers often have a difficult time recruiting midwives to hire. At the same time, women are seeking birth center and midwifery care in growing numbers. A well-designed fellowship program helps address all of these needs in a supported, safe way. This article describes one birth cen...

Oportunidades, a conditional cash-transfer program instituted in Mexico in 1997, provides cash incentives to mothers to invest in the health and education of family members. Drawing from data gathered by Mexico's National Institute of Public Health, this study assesses the effect of the program on contraceptive use and birth spacing among titulares (female household heads) living in rural areas...

OBJECTIVE To identify and evaluate the predisposing factors regarding the utilization of the Pap smears in the population seen in the Cervical Cancer Screening Program in Mexico METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted from January 1997 through December 1998 in Mexico city. A questionnaire was applied to a total of 2,107 women of reproductive age who attended a family planning program an...

A trial was conducted to determine pre- and postweaning performance of pigs injected with dexamethasone either 1 or 24 h after birth. In Exp. 1, 225 pigs (Triumph4 x PIC Camborough 22) were assigned according to birth weight and sex to three treatments. Treatments included either saline (Control), Dex1 (2 mg/kg BW i.m. injection of dexamethasone within 1 h of birth), or Dex24 (2 mg/kg BW i.m. i...

background: this study aimed to determine the impact of an empowerment program on maternal stress. materials and methods: during may 2009–may 2010, this quasi‑experimental study was performed in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) of shahid akbarabadi, rasoul‑e‑akram, and aliasghar hospitals affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences (iran). the program consists of an educational c...

Interjection of compliance control for IUD user especially from middle and low educational background. Complete understanding will lead to high level interest be increasing scoupe as a goverment program long term birth control. Purpose this research is user. Research descriptive with cross sectional approach. Sampling methods saturated samples 60 users. Result show 19 (31,7%) users obey, 41 (68...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects a birth preparation program on satisfaction. Material and methods: This cross-sectional was conducted with patients who applied our hospital between January 2018 2019. A total 164 pregnant women (Study Group) for completed all training in 152 did not apply know about such (Control were included study. Demographical data obstetric p...