Integrated Perinatal Care and beyond

A literature review on integrated perinatal care

CONTEXT The perinatal period is one during which health care services are in high demand. Like other health care sub-sectors, perinatal health care delivery has undergone significant changes in recent years, such as the integrative wave that has swept through the health care industry since the early 1990s. PURPOSE The present study aims at reviewing scholarly work on integrated perinatal care...

Population health systems: going beyond integrated care

Genomics and perinatal care.

From the McKusick–Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore (J.B.); and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (J.F.S.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Strauss at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1101 E. Marshall St., Richmond, VA 23298, or at jfstrauss@ vcu...

Integrated care in the daily work: coordination beyond organisational boundaries

OBJECTIVES In this paper, integrated care in an inter-organisational cooperative setting of in-home elderly care is studied. The aim is to explore how home care workers coordinate their daily work, identify coordination issues in situ and discuss possible actions for supporting seamless and integrated elderly care at home. METHOD The empirical findings are drawn from an ethnographic workplace...

Perinatal Care in Canada

HEALTH ISSUE: Canada's standard of perinatal care ranks among the highest in the world, but there is still room for improvement, both in terms of regional differences in care and global comparisons of approaches to care in Canada and elsewhere. Data from the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System (CPSS) was used to evaluate morbidity and mortality among mothers and infants. KEY FINDINGS: Matern...