Limits on healthcare for undocumented women are reshaping pregnancy and family health.
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Central Hillsborough Healthy Start offers a model of community care that helps to prevent premature births.
Rates of preterm births, maternal deaths and other adverse birth outcomes are abysmal across the US, but there are clear strategies that could help the nation reverse course.
We must move away from the binary diagnosis of post-partum depression and think of difficulties during the transition to parenthood as relational experiences, not a disorder.
Consuming adequate amounts of omega-3 fatty acids from food sources can help offset the need for obtaining the nutrients from vitamins.
Nearly 100,000 US children under age 5 are hospitalized each year for an RSV infection.
Although testing for CMV during pregnancy isn’t routine and there isn’t universal screening for infants, there are steps pregnant people can take to protect themselves and their newborns.
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.
Being pregnant and giving birth during the pandemic meant disruptions in pregnancy care and birth experiences, as well as detrimental effects on mental health and birth outcomes.
Women deserve to know all the risks and be supported in their birth choices.
Local and national governments in west and central African countries must prioritise investment in providing access to HIV testing for all pregnant women.
The importance of accessing water that’s safe to drink and enough for washing, cleaning and cooking is clear, but little attention has been given to the safety of water collection away from home.
Having multiple romantic partners also offers greater financial and logistical support when raising children, according to research with polyamorous families.
To make meaningful progress on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, all provinces and territories should promptly follow B.C. and ban discriminatory ‘birth alerts.’
Providing affordable pregnancy tests to women in low-resource countries is a critical, yet under-appreciated, way to improve their health.
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.
With an estimated prevalence of four per cent, fetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD) is more common than autism. And yet is it surrounded by myth and stigma.
New research shows that midwifery care is not just for the wealthy – it has health and cost benefits for vulnerable women and provincial governments must act to increase their access.
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Research Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor, Midwifery Education Program, McMaster University
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Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and Director, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan
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Lecturer, James Cook University
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Professor of Radiology, University of Calgary
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MSc student in School and Applied Child Psychology, University of Calgary
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Junior Research Fellow
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PhD (Public Health) student at the school of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Calgary
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Midwifery Education Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne
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Communications Specialist, University of California, San Francisco
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