Introduction: Midwifery is the art of caring for women during childbearing. It is practiced throughout the world according to the norms, traditions and cultural practices found in each country. Maternal mortality in Nigeria is high but there are wide variations between the geopolitical zones of the country. Government has established the midwives service scheme (MSS) as part of efforts towards ...

BACKGROUND Health workforce planning is important in ensuring that the recruitment, training and deployment of health workers are conducted in the most efficient way possible. However, in many developing countries, human resources for health data are limited, inconsistent, out-dated, or unavailable. Consequently, policy-makers are unable to use reliable data to make informed decisions about the...

This study aimed to evaluate the trend of production (2007-2016) and associated factors seven health professionals i.e. physicians, dentists, diploma nurses, bachelor midwives, medical assistants technologists in Bangladesh. The team adopted a mapping approach geographically locate all professional education institutions recognized by Ministry Health Family Welfare (MOHFW). was supported mixed-...

Nonconvex nonsmooth potential functions have superior restoration performance for the images with neat boundaries. However, several difficulties emerge from the numerical computation. Thus the graduated nonconvex (GNC) method is suggested to deal with these problems. To improve the performance of the GNC method further, a class of nonconvex nonsmooth approximate potential functions have been co...

BackgroundCompetence is the documentation of an acceptable level performance, through a process structured assessment. Focusing on generating highly competent midwives with essential skills, more specifically childbirth care services helps to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes. This study was aimed assess determinants competency delivery among newly graduated bachelor midwifery studen...

In this paper we propose the Graduated NonConvexity and Graduated Concavity Procedure (GNCGCP) as a general optimization framework to approximately solve the combinatorial optimization problems on the set of partial permutation matrices. GNCGCP comprises two sub-procedures, graduated nonconvexity (GNC) which realizes a convex relaxation and graduated concavity (GC) which realizes a concave rela...

background job satisfaction, which is affected by various factors, indicates positive or negative attitude of employees towards their own occupation and affects the quality of service. objectives the present study aimed at investigating job satisfaction and some of its related factors in midwives of tehran primary health centers in 2014. methods the present cross sectional study was conducted o...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether a specifically designed whole-ofdegree strategy utilising groupwork assessments effective in facilitating the development early career midwives’ teamwork skills. A qualitative using in-depth, semi-structured interviews undertaken with midwives who had graduated within previous two years. This is final cycle larger participatory action research pr...

BACKGROUND In spite of caring being the core of midwifery and nursing, there is a constant public outcry about uncaring behaviours of midwives towards clients. Local media reports and recent discussion in the health system have highlighted the concerns regarding caring behaviours of midwives. Thus, there is a need to compare the meaning of caring from the perspectives of student midwives, midwi...