Organisation and delivery of perinatal services

Perinatal and Family Services

Beblo, S., K. D. Stark, et al. (2005). "Effects of alcohol intake during pregnancy on docosahexaenoic acid and arachidonic acid in umbilical cord vessels of black women." Pediatrics 115(2): E194-E203. OBJECTIVE: Alcohol influences the intake and metabolism of several nutrients including long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs). The LC-PUFAs docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic ac...

Patient Choice and the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services: Scoping review

Organisation of prison medical services.

Much of the discussion about prison health care in the past few years has focused on whether the prison medical service* should be incorporated into the National Health Service. Some critics have tended to see this as an answer to all the ills of the service, and the prison department has taken the threat seriously enough to devote most of the part of its 1981 annual report dealing with health ...

Financing and organisation of veterinary services.

This paper analyses the different ways of financing official Veterinary Services (VS) and the effects of these choices on the performance of such Services. The links between governance, organisational effectiveness and financing arrangements are seen as particularly important. The paper comments on some of the advantages and disadvantages of financing VS with service fees, as compared to budget...

Intended place of delivery and perinatal outcome.

Data from the "1958 Perinatal Mortality Survey" have been analysed to assess differences in stillbirth and neonatal death rates according to the arrangements made for delivery. Only women aged 20-34 delivering at term, with no pregnancy abnormalities, were selected from three groups of women (normotensive primiparae, hypertensive primiparae, and normotensive women of parity 1, 2, or 3). Despite...