Development of the hypothesis that adverse conditions in utero and during infancy increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in later life required epidemiological studies of a kind never undertaken before. It was necessary to find records of birth weight and living conditions during infancy for people born at least 60 years ago and to link these to their current cardiovascular health. After a...

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2005 Practising Midwife 8(3):44-45. 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. If there is one thing that midwives tend to have in common, it is their love of talking about midwifery, sharing birth stories and collecting ...

Indonesia established its Village Midwife Program in 1989 to combat high rates of maternal mortality. The program's goals were to address gaps in access to reproductive health care for rural women, increase access to and use of family planning services, and broaden the mix of available contraceptive methods. In this study, we use longitudinal data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to examin...

Abstract This paper estimates the causal effect of a historical midwifery policy experiment on maternal mortality, infant and stillbirth during period 1830–1894 in Sweden. Exploiting sharp changes or “discontinuities” across time place availability trained licensed midwives as an exogenous source variation, we find that doubling led to 20%–40% reduction mortality 20% increase uptake midwife-ass...

background and aim: job satisfaction represents individuals' positive or negative attitude towards their occupation. job satisfaction is of high significance in health care field and could affects the quality of patients' health care and satisfaction. every organization should pay considerable attention to job satisfaction and performance and continually monitor these indices. therefo...

Although the primary focus of midwifery is on uncomplicated pregnancy, all midwives must screen for and, in some cases, comanage the care of women with diabetes mellitus and gestational diabetes. This article will review the types of diabetes, implications for preconceptional and pregnancy care, the changing recommendations relative to diabetes in pregnancy, and the role of the midwife in provi...

Over the years, various measures have been adopted to relieve a woman's pain during childbirth and also to assist her to deliver her baby. The standing, semi erect, seated and squatting positions have all been adopted. The woman who assisted the mother and received the baby that was spontaneously delivered by the mother was referred to as the Midwife which means 'With Woman'. The famous Greek p...