“The Maternity Home”:

Use of maternity waiting home in rural Zambia.

This study was conducted to assess the results from the use of a maternity waiting home, a health facility to which women with high risk pregnancies are referred during the last weeks of pregnancy in rural Zambia. It compared the risk status and pregnancy outcome in women staying as waiters with those women who give birth in hospital after direct admission (non-waiters). Forty seven per-cent of...

Maternity

The Royal Maternity Hospital

the rectum. In the aard-vark the testes occupy an intermediate position within the inguinal canal, but here there is reason to believe that they descend into the scrotum during the mating season. The testes of active creatures like ungulates, carnivores, and primates lie within a post-penile scrotum, where they are free from violent changes in pressure and are kept in the position of greatest s...

Willingness to Pay for a Maternity Waiting Home Stay in Zambia

INTRODUCTION Complications of pregnancy and childbirth can pose serious risks to the health of women, especially in resource-poor settings. Zambia has been implementing a program to improve access to emergency obstetric and neonatal care, including expansion of maternity waiting homes-residential facilities located near a qualified medical facility where a pregnant woman can wait to give birth....

The Need of Maternity Homes

puerperal mortality was higher than in any year . since 1905, and the increase was preponderantly due to sepsis. Last year (1921) the maternal mortality rate fell, but is still far higher than it should be, considering our modern knowledge of the cause and prevention of infection and the successful application of this knowledge to the practice of surgery. In order to arrest this regrettable and...