Several comprehensive studies of hospital feeding have been planned to show as precisely as possible the nutritive value of representative diets provided in hospitals for patients and staff. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Department of Health for Scotland has been carefully examining the problem of hospital diets and has made surveys and will publish a report in due course. The purpos...

Here is a comprehensive study of nearly 14,000 cases of births during the week beginning March 3rd, 1946. The enquiry was sponsored by the Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Population Investigation Committee, under the chairmanship of Professor James Young. Antenatal supervision, the places of confinement, and care during confinement, the relief of...

BACKGROUND Maternity health care available in Canada is based on the needs of women born in Canada and often lacks the flexibility to meet the needs of immigrant women. The purpose of this study was to explore immigrant Chinese women's experiences in accessing maternity care, the utilization of maternity health services, and the obstacles they perceived in Canada. METHODS This descriptive phe...

OBJECTIVE To study whether early mother-infant contact with suckling and rooming-in reduces the rate of infant abandonment. DESIGN The infant abandonment rate was studied at a Russian hospital before and after the introduction of early mother-infant contact with suckling and rooming-in. SETTING Maternity Hospital 11 , a public hospital in St Petersburg, Russia, was chosen as the site of thi...

Telling a pregnant woman and her family about a fetal demise is one of the greatest challenges for maternity care clinicians. In this essay, the author reflects on such an encounter in her work as a community health center clinician, maternity care teacher, and mother herself.

Enis Özkaya1, Evrim Çakır2, Mehmet Çınar3, Metin Altay3, Orhan Gelişen3, Fadıl Kara1 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Women’s Health Teaching and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 2Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıd Teaching and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Etlik Zübeyde Hanım M...