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There are four practical policy shifts that the Nigerian government could take to improve the use of maternity services.
Mobile health clinics are a practical but underused solution to the growing number of maternity care deserts in the US.
Doulas bring a holistic, person-centered approach that can improve birth outcomes and lower overall costs.
During the pandemic, midwives were torn between doing their jobs but exposing themselves to COVID-19, or not fulfilling their duties.
With a 40% staffing shortfall, midwifery needs better funding. But as new research shows, midwives also need recognition and support for the important work they do in the New Zealand health sector.
New research shows that breastfeeding rates peaked in 2020, a time of strict COVID restrictions.
Several familiar maternity terms have been abandoned after a consultation with pregnant women and healthcare professionals.
Discontinuing expanded health-care funding will result in less prenatal care for uninsured patients, more health risks, higher costs to the health system, and moral distress for health-care providers.
Primary care doctors have long played an important role in providing birth control. Now, with the fall of Roe, they could help fill a critical need for comprehensive family planning services.
The details of Ms A’s case reinforce what campaigners and midwives have been saying for years.
‘Catching a baby’ or caring for new parents on Christmas Day is special, midwives say. But Christmas can also be a vulnerable time for many women, especially so during a pandemic.
With the dawn of colonialism, nursing and midwifery were formally established and, in many colonies, recognised as the first modern clinical profession on the African continent.
During a pandemic, a home birth starts looking better every second. Midwives with their specialized skills in low-risk normal birth can be of great service.
Front line professionals need more support and time.
The benefits of midwifery for women and babies globally are clear. In Canada, innovations in midwifery centres and services are tempered by low pay and high rates of burnout.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex wish to keep the arrival of their baby private – and it’s caused some consternation. But this was normal for most medieval women.
Well resourced and empowered nurses could help to quickly spread universal health care.
Tokophobia is a pathological fear of pregnancy and can lead to avoidance of childbirth.
Mozambique has one of the highest maternal death rates in the world. Researchers hope to reduce this, with an ambitious project aimed at empowering women and girls.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Midwifery Education Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, Auckland University of Technology
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Research Fellow in Management, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida
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Dean, Nursing and Midwifery, Aga Khan University
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Associate Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health, Swansea University
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Professor of Midwifery and Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Southern Cross University
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, Criminology and Law, University of Florida
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Professor of Employment Relations, , Queen Mary University of London
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Director Centre > Health Equity in Regional and Remote Communities, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, University of Hertfordshire
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University of Global Health Equity
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Chair, Center for Nursing and Midwifery, University of Global Health Equity
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Senior Research Fellow in Maternal and Reproductive Health, University of Hull