Efforts to reduce maternal mortality through the provision of quality services must still be carried out despite limited conditions due COVID-19 pandemic. Problems in pregnant women, childbirth and postpartum monitored even though ANC visits are limited. The purpose this community service activity is form a WhatsApp group as medium facilitate collaborative with Punggul-Mojokerto Village Polinde...

Ear Nose Throat Disease (ENT) is a disease that affects many Indonesian people. Beji Mulyo Village village in the Tungkal Jaya sub-district, Banyuasin district, Palembang City. This only has health center and midwife as head of village. The problem experienced by lack experts to treat ENT diseases. Besides that, find an specialist, community travel quite distance hospital city. Therefore it nec...

background: infants are the most vulnerable people with special needs in natural disasters. since midwives are responsible for providing reproductive health services to infants in disastrous situations, assessing their professional competence is of great importance. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in tehran, iran. a total of 361 midwives were selected by cluster ...

We use data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to investigate the impact of a major expansion in access to midwifery services on health and pregnancy outcomes for women of reproductive age. Between 1990 and 1998 Indonesia trained some 50,000 midwives. Between 1993 and 1997 these midwives tended to be placed in relatively poor communities that were relatively distant from health centers. We s...

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2003 Practising Midwife 6(11):23. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. When I first became involved with birth centres in the USA, they were seen as something of a compromise by many of those involved in setting the...

developed midwifery, that the U.S.A. had developed nursing, but that Britain had managed to combine them in the way that was needed. Accordingly, she and her nurses took midwifery training in London. But she was also convinced that the nurse-midwife could and should combine sick nursing and preventive work, something that many Britons, then and now, see as far from ideal. We could do worse than...

Background The diffusion of mobile phones in low- and middle-income countries has taken place faster than any other infrastructural development. Mobile Midwife, a mobile application implemented in Ghana in 2010, sends timely messages in local languages to registered expectant mothers and new parents. The field of mobile health (mHealth) is severely underresearched, yet it can be an alternative ...

OBJECTIVE the current division between midwife-led and obstetrician-led care creates fragmentation in maternity care in the Netherlands. This study aims to gain insight into the level of consensus among maternity care professionals about facilitators and barriers related to integration of midwife-led and obstetrician-led care. Integration could result in more personal continuity of care for wom...