Re-examination of Antenatal Care

ABC of antenatal care. Normal antenatal management.

Antenatal care in the 1990s has six functions (box). The first two are the same as any performed in an outpatient clinic (treatment of symptoms); the second two relate to multiphasic screening of which antenatal care was an early example; and the third pair are part of health education. Antenatal care in the United Kingdom is performed by a range of professionals-midwives, general practitioners...

Antenatal Care

Antenatal care (ANC) coverage is a success story in Africa, since over two-thirds of pregnant women (69 percent) have at least one ANC contact. However, to achieve the full life-saving potential that ANC promises for women and babies, four visits providing essential evidence based interventions – a package often called focused antenatal care – are required. Essential interventions in ANC includ...

Models of Antenatal Care

Routinely involving obstetricians in the care of low risk women at scheduled II 3 times does not appear to improve perinatal outcomes compared with involving obstetricians when complications arise. Where possible, women should be sent or given written information on models of care prior to their first visit. This is due to the high volume of information that women are required to process and th...

Re-Examination of Correctional Alternatives

Antenatal and Postnatal Care

Antenatal and Postnatal Care is a book that can be recommended with confidence to students and doctors who undertake the care, supervision and treatment of expectant mothers. Conscientious application of the practical instruction contained in the book will do much to rescue antenatal care from the disrepute into which it has fallen by being inadequately and perfunctorily practised. At the same ...