BACKGROUND Prolonged labour very often causes suffering from difficulties that may have lifelong implications. This study aimed to explore the prevalence and treatment of prolonged labour and to compare birth outcome and women's experiences of prolonged and normal labour. METHOD Women with spontaneous onset of labour, living in a Swedish county, were recruited two months after birth, to a cro...

BACKGROUND HIV screening in a labour ward is the last opportunity to initiate an antiretroviral prophylaxis among pregnant women living with HIV to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission. Little is known about the feasibility and acceptability of HIV screening during labour in West Africa. FINDINGS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the labour ward at the Tokoin Teaching Hospital in ...

For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour force and for coping with the requirements of the European Monetary Union. In this paper we apply a novel approach to the issue of labour market flexibility in transition countries by studying the optimality and efficiency of labour usage among Estonian manufacturing enterpris...

Labour market imperfections are one of the leading causes of economic backwardness that result in under utilization of labour, the most important input in production process. Labour markets are shallow in subsistence agricultural economies which causes problem in determining the wage rate. The household production function provides an alternative to estimating the shadow wage rate such that it ...

Education is the main resource of young people entering the labour market for securing employment, in competing for adequate employment contracts and to fulfill their occupational aspirations. As European countries differ widely in the institutional structure of their education and training systems and labour markets, different resources are provided to school-leavers entering into working life...

introduction: there are major differences in neonatal and obstetrics outcomes of labour among different ethnicities. the present study compared the neonatal and obstetrics outcomes of labour between the iranian and afghan ethnicities. methods: neonatal and obstetrics problems were evaluated in iranian and afghan pregnant women, who had referred to arash educational/treatment center for labour d...

This research aims to discover whether access to microinsurance might make any difference to the microcredit receivers in terms of reducing their use of child labour. The research decomposes households into three broad groups: microcredit participants with microinsurance, microcredit participants without microinsurance and non-participants of microcredit and microinsurance. Using household info...

A total of 2176 consecutive patients who had had one previous caesarean section were studied retrospectively. A repeat elective caesarean section was performed in 395 (18.2%). Labour started spontaneously in 1363 patients, 301 of whom were given oxytocin to accelerate inert labour, and was induced by amniotomy and infusion of oxytocin in 418 women; 1618 of these 1781 patients (90.8%) delivered ...

Emotional labour is a state that exists when there is a discrepancy between the emotional demeanour that an individual displays and the genuinely felt emotions that would be inappropriate to display (Mann 1999b).The study examined levels of emotional labour in university lecturers and compared these data to other occupations. Employing a mixed methods design, a sample of 61 university lecturers...