The ratio of women participating in nonagricultural work has increased significantly in rural China since the so-called “Market Economy” was adopted in the 1980s. This phenomenon has had a great impact on family income earning patterns and poverty reduction. However, from the perspective of the woman’s dual identity in the family – income earner and child caregiver – the change in work patterns...

BACKGROUND Data on cause-specific mortality, skilled birth attendance, and emergency obstetric care access are essential to plan maternity services. We present the distribution of India's 2001-2003 maternal mortality by cause and uptake of emergency obstetric care, in poorer and richer states. METHODS AND FINDINGS The Registrar General of India surveyed all deaths occurring in 2001-2003 in 1....

The COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions can adversely impact antenatal maternal well-being health behaviours. To examine stress stress-reduction strategies, social support, behaviours between women pregnant before during the in Ireland. 210 were recruited online department of a tertiary maternity hospital pandemic, 235 pandemic. Only resident Ireland included this study. Women completed ...

BACKGROUND The way in which women and their babies transition from maternity services to the care of child and family health nurses differs across Australia. The aim of the study was to understand the transition of care from one service to another and how to promote collaboration in the first few weeks after the birth. METHOD A descriptive study was undertaken. All midwifery, child and family...

We assessed reported adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) prophylaxis byHIV-exposed infants followed in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) International Site Development Initiative (NISDI) Longitudinal Study in Latin American Countries (LILAC) protocol1 through at least 6–12 weeks of life. LILAC is a prospective cohort study at sites in Arge...

PURPOSE Women lag behind men in several key academic indicators, such as advancement, retention, and securing leadership positions. Although reasons for these disparities are multifactorial, policies that do not support work-life integration contribute to the problem. The objective of this descriptive study was to compare the faculty work-life policies among medical schools in the Big Ten confe...

OBJECTIVE Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals for maternal health has been slow, and accelerated progress in scaling up professional delivery care is needed. This paper describes poor-rich inequalities in the use of maternity care and seeks to understand these inequalities through comparisons with other types of health care. METHODS Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from ...

BACKGROUND The role of husbands in maternal health is often overlooked by health programmes in developing countries and is an under-researched area of study globally. This study examines the role of husbands in maternity care and safe childbirth, their perceptions of the needs of women and children, the factors which influence or discourage their participation, and how women feel about male inv...

Medicine’s highest duty is saving threatened human life, and obstetrics is the branch of medicine in which this duty is most obviously fulfilled. Frequently it is necessary to deliver a child in transverse lie. Mother and child will probably die if the birth is left to nature, while the obstetrician’s timely helping hand, almost painlessly and taking only a few minutes, can save both . I was al...

BACKGROUND In several countries centres for the integrated delivery of services to the parent and child have been established. In the Netherlands family health care service centres, called Parent and Child Centres (PCCs) involve multidisciplinary teams. Here doctors, nurses, midwives, maternity help professionals and educationists are integrated into multidisciplinary teams in neighbourhood-bas...