Introduction: A Midwifery Trained Registered Nurse (MTRN) is a member of the multi-professional maternity health care team in Sri Lanka. Her contribution to the maternity care team is poorly understood, often undermined, and undefined. In the context of low- and middle-income settings where traditional midwives play a crucial role in domiciliary care, the MTRNs role as a member of the multi-pro...

1 Pediatric Institute (IPPMG), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Send correspondence and reprint requests to: Patricia de Carvalho Padilha, Rua Gramado 475, Bloco C, Apto. 202, Campo Grande, CEP 23050-090, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; e-mail: [email protected] 2 Maternal and Child Health Research Group (GPSMI), Center for Micronutrient Research (NPq...

National Breastfeeding Project in Thailand began in 1989. The main activities were the promotion of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative; legislation on maternity leave; and the Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and related products. The development of Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative may in part explain the increasing of prevalence rate of breastfeeding. However exclusive breastf...

The All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, maintains a maternity and child-welfare centre with the object of serving an area, roughly, the northern half of Ward VIII of the city, bounded by 'College' Street on the east, Colootola Street on the south, Chitpur Road on the west, and the Mechuaoazar Street on the north. The population of the area is cosmopolitan and is drawn fr...

Maternal health status before pregnancy is a decisive factor for pregnancy outcomes and for risk for maternal and infant complications. Still, maternity care does not start until the pregnancy is established and in most low-income settings not until more than half of the pregnancy has passed, which often is too late to impact outcomes. In Western societies preconception care (PCC) is widely rec...

Given mounting evidence on the negative impact of early-life shocks for wellbeing people over life course, a growing economics literature studies whether policies have symmetric positive effects. This paper zooms in research this topic from Nordic countries, where all families access to comprehensive set health programs, including prenatal, maternity, and well-infant care. I describe model univ...

I am very much honoured by the invitation of the Delhi Maternity Service Co-ordinating Committee to give its fifth annual lecture. I feel particularly humble when I realize that previous lecturers have included such illustrious individuals as General Jolly, Colonel Lazarus and Dr. Balfour, especially in view of my short experience in India. However, quite apart from that, I feel it is of more t...

There is a lack of systematic evidence concerning health orientation in maternity practice in the current climate of risk avoidance. The midwifery professional project is orientated toward the preservation of normal physiological processes during the maternity episode. This study investigates accounts of midwives who were working in health-orientated birth settings, to examine if and how they f...

With the improvement of people's living standards and gradual liberalization maternity policy, infant care education are developing in a refined personalized direction. For students related majors vocational colleges, society has higher requirements for their professional skills. Therefore, students' practical skills can no longer rely solely on last year's internship. In teaching process, we m...