BACKGROUND Although women usually obtain family planning services during their reproductive years, their need for comprehensive preventive services that promote wellness beyond reproductive health is often ignored. COMMUNITY CONTEXT The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene sought to improve the general health of women and reduce their risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes by integra...

Family history captures the collective influence of shared genetic susceptibility, shared environmental factors, and common behaviors within families. Throughout the reproductive continuum, pediatricians, obstetricians, family practitioners, genetic counselors, and other clinicians can work with families to elicit relevant family history information and factor it into risk-assessment calculatio...

INTRODUCTION Short interconception period after caesarean section and its associated risk of increased morbidity, mortality and surgical interventions could be avoided by postplacental IUCD insertion during the procedure. Despite the safety reports on intracaesarean IUCD insertion, obstetricians are still hesitant to extend the benefit of this long acting reversible contraception to women under...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between infant mortality in a first pregnancy and risk for stillbirth in a second pregnancy. DESIGN Population-based, retrospective cohort study. SETTING Maternally linked cohort data files for the state of Missouri. POPULATION Women who had two singleton pregnancies in Missouri during the period 1989-2005 (n = 320 350). METHODS Women whose first pre...

About 90,000 preterm infants or babies with birth defects are born in Italy every year, nearly 250 per day. These congenital conditions and their outcomes represent the most important burden of disease affecting the health status and the quality of life during infancy, childhood and beyond. In many cases they are fostered by the presence of maternal and/or paternal preconception risk factors wh...

introduction: health care industry consists of an unexpected and confusing environment in which quality events play the important role. in such conditions, the necessary changes should be made. excellence models are general oriented frameworks that are able to achieve the above intention. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. data gathered by a standard checkli...

objective: to find out the quality of anc in the upazila health complexes (phc centres) of bangladesh. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was done in purposively selected three upazilas among the clients receiving antenatal care (anc). data were collected with questionnaire cum checklist in the context of two aspects of quality issues, namely assessment of physical arrangements f...

background & aim: maternal satisfaction of health services is an inherent element of healthcare policies, and quality of midwifery care essentially influences this parameter. this study aimed to evaluate maternal satisfaction of postpartum care and its association with midwifery care at the urban health centers of mashhad, iran in 2012. methods:this descriptive, cross sectional study was conduc...