The formal private sector could play a significant role in determining whether success or failure is achieved in working towards goals for safe motherhood in many low- and middle-income settings. Established private providers, especially nurses/midwives, have the potential to contribute to safe motherhood practices if they are involved in the care continuum. However, they have largely been over...

This paper explores how safe motherhood is effectively promoted in Zambia. Top-down pressure to improve maternal health indicators appears to motivate the prioritised allocation of available resources. Otherwise, when supportive supervision and workers' intrinsic commitment waivers, capacity-building is seldom sufficient to ensure the implementation of skills learnt. Likewise, at national level...

OBJECTIVE To investigate an appropriate depth of needle insertion during trigger point injection into the rhomboid major muscle. METHODS Sixty-two patients who visited our department with shoulder or upper back pain participated in this study. The distance between the skin and the rhomboid major muscle (SM) and the distance between the skin and rib (SB) were measured using ultrasonography. Th...

attitudes toward motherhood among societies change over time and fertility rates have fallen over.mothering and motherhood are the subjects of a rapidly expanding body of literature. set of this studies have a more macro focus in terms origions of motherhood and how it manifests in practice .in the current research in the base of parson's general theory of action (a.g.i.l), motherhood is c...

BACKGROUND Most developed countries have made considerable progress in addressing maternal mortality, but it appears that countries with high maternal mortality burdens like Nigeria have made little progress in improving maternal health outcomes despite emphasis by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Knowledge about safe motherhood practices could help reduce pregnancy related health risks...