This paper investigates whether one’s effort to keep up with the Joneses has any effect on labor supply behavior. We provide a simple model and empirical evidence that labor supply decisions of married women are influenced by relative as well as absolute income of their husbands. We find, after controlling for husbands’ absolute income and other individual characteristics, that married women ar...

Premature Delivery to Preserve Sight.? A. E. Adams reports two cases {Annals of Ophthalmology, Oct. 1898), in which premature labour was induced in consequence of rapid failure of vision due to albuminuric retinitis and hemorrhages. The improvement of sight was considerable. An interesting point in one case was that the urine was free from albumen until after the onset of the neuritis. Dr. Adam...

A modified life events inventory was presented over a four-month period to 132 consecutive women going into spontaneous labour in Hull and Manchester. Three study groups were identified according to the duration of pregnancy. The levels of psychosocial stress in pregnancy were found to be particularly high in the mothers whose babies were born preterm. Stressful events may precipitate preterm l...

This paper represents another important piece of the puzzle that is sonographic cervical length measurement for the prediction of preterm birth. Cervical length is now well established as a predictor of preterm birth in both twin and singleton populations in asymptomatic women, a fact that has grown in clinical relevance, with data suggesting that perhaps in both populations, but certainly in s...

Currently, there is considerable variation in the way spontaneous preterm labour is diagnosed and managed internationally. As a result, 12 international leading experts from 10 countries met to establish consensus on clinical recommendations and guidelines regarding the diagnosis, management and treatment of spontaneous preterm labour. The consensus was supported by evidence from quality litera...

Anesthesia providers in low-income countries may infrequently provide regional anesthesia techniques for obstetrics due to insufficient training and supplies, limited manpower, and a lack of perceived need. In 2007, Kybele, Inc. began a 5-year collaboration in Ghana to improve obstetric anesthesia services. A program was designed to teach spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery and spinal labor...

“THE position of woman in any civilization is an index of the advancement of that civilization; the position of woman is gauged by the care given her at the birth of her child.” Although many developments have occurred in obstetric anesthesia since this quote’s first publication in 1929, advances in the subspecialty have been complicated by medicolegal, financial, maternal, and fetal considerat...

UNLABELLED Presenting the rates of obstetric admissions of women living in Paraná in 2010. METHOD A descriptive study in which the admission information of the hospital system of the Unified Health System was analyzed. Data from women aged between 10 to 49 years available on the DATASUS website were analyzed, using percentage and according to primary diagnosis, age and Regional Health area. ...

BACKGROUND Satisfaction with birth care is part of quality assessment of care. The aim of this study was to investigate possible differences in satisfaction with intrapartum care among low-risk women, randomized to a midwifery unit or to an obstetric unit within the same hospital. METHODS Randomized controlled trial conducted at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Østfold Hospital Tr...