This prospective intervention study was undertaken to assess the impact of repeated breast-feeding counselling on the rate of exclusive breast-feeding up to five months. The study was carried out in two breast-feeding counselling sub-centres, established at the community level in the vicinity of two maternity facilities and one main centre established in an urban children hospital. Eighty-four ...

Pregnancy and delivery have a major impact on the mental health of women, and give rise to many conditions mainly including maternity blues, postpartum depression, and puerperal psychosis, and also including psychiatric symptoms, neurosis, personality disorders and alcohol or drug dependence. While the incidence of maternity blues among postpartum women is high, the symptoms are improved sponta...

Kenya has a high maternal mortality rate. Free maternity services program was implemented to improve access and utilization of maternal health services and ultimately improve maternal health. The implementation of the policy in Kenya was done through a top-down approach, with health workers being called upon to implement the formulated policy. Evidence shows that involvement of health workers i...

BACKGROUND Maternity services should take into account the needs of all women, including those related to disability. No reliable information, however, exists on the extent and characteristics of disability in this population in the UK. This brief report provides an overview of the prevalence of disability in women giving birth in the UK as measured by the presence of a limiting longstanding il...

In contemporary Western societies, birthing is framed as transformative for mothers; however, it is also a site for the regulation of women and the exercise of power relations by health professionals. Nursing scholarship often frames migrant mothers as a problem, yet nurses are imbricated within systems of scrutiny and regulation that are unevenly imposed on 'other' mothers. Discourses deployed...

Abstract Objectives: to verify the quality indicators of neonatal hearing screening programs, identify most prevalent risk factors for loss and analyze access Hearing Health Care Network. Methods: cross-sectional study using secondary data. The population are children born in public maternity hospitals from 2015 2019. Data collection was carried out database programs health service. absolute re...

BACKGROUND Cognitive development in childhood is negatively affected by socioeconomic disadvantage. This study examined whether differences in fetal environment might mediate the association between family socioeconomic position and child development. METHODS Data were linked from the Scottish Longitudinal Study, maternity inpatient records and the Child Health Surveillance Programme - Pre Sc...

Acknowledgements: Valuable comments about this research and earlier versions of this report were provided by Karen Smith Conway, Ph.D. We thank Walter Pete Bailey, M.P.H., Amy E. Brock Martin, M.P.H., Dr.PH., and Heather Kirby of the South Carolina Office for Research and Statistics, for their assistance in obtaining the South Carolina data and useful comments about this research. Valuable comm...

background: the aim of the study was to compare the effects of 'face-to-face education' and 'educational movies' on  'knowledge' and 'practice' of women of child-bearing-age, in terms of health-care during pregnancy and during infancy in a suburban region near tehran city, iran.   methods: in this quasi-experimental study, the sample included 873 married women. questionnaires for knowledge and ...

OBJECTIVES (1) To estimate the proportion of National Health Service (NHS) professionals who have come into contact with trafficked people and (2) to measure NHS professionals' knowledge and confidence to respond to human trafficking. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey. SETTING Face-to-face mandatory child protection and/or vulnerable adults training sessions at 10 secondary healthcare provide...