maternity child health is one of the important and essential aspects of health services that must be considered as a priority in administrative programs because mothers and their children more than other people in the community are affected by perilous environmental factors. they are very vulnerable that lead to disease, failure to thrive, inability and death. every year, poor hygiene leads to ...

INTRODUCTION Primary maternity care services are globally provided according to various organisational models. Two models are common in Finland: a maternity health clinic and an integrated maternity and child health clinic. The aim of this study was to clarify whether there is a relation between the organisational model of the maternity health clinics and the utilisation of maternity care servi...

INTRODUCTION In the Finnish primary health care, relational continuity of care is implemented in integrated maternity and child health clinics where the same nurse takes care of the family from the pregnancy until the child reaches school age. The aim of this study was to clarify the association between this relational continuity of care and the availability, utilisation and selected features o...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the study is to examine the effects and feasibility of individual physical activity (PA) counseling in maternity and child health clinics in Finland. METHODS Three clinics including both maternity and child health care signed up for the experimental (EXP) and three for the control group (CON). The participants were 132 pregnant and 92 postpartum primiparas. The nurse...

This paper examines whether maternity leave policies have an effect on women's mental health in older age. We link data for women aged 50 years and above from countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to data on maternity leave legislation from 1960 onwards. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits changes over time within countries in the durat...

BACKGROUND Stillbirths and neonatal deaths are devastating events for both parents and clinicians and are global public health concerns. Careful clinical management after these deaths is required, including appropriate investigation and assessment to determine cause (s) to prevent future losses, and to improve bereavement care for families. An educational programme for health care professionals...

Abstract This paper studies the impact of day-to-day variation in maternity ward crowding on medical procedure use and health infants mothers. Exploiting data universe Danish admissions to wards years 2000–2014, we first document substantial admissions. residual crowding, find that change provision procedures care crowded days relative less days, they do so ways alleviate their workload. We ver...

†contributed equally to this manuscript 5 Southern Medical University, Guangdong Province, China 6 Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Bao’an Maternity & Child Health Hospital affiliated with 7 Jinan University, Shenzhen, P. R. China 8 Department of Clinical Laboratory, Bao’an Maternity & Child Health Hospital affiliated 9 with Jinan University, Shenzhen, P. R. China 10 Centre for Infectious Diseas...