Background: This cross-sectional study was designed to explore the impact of the availability of maternity care services on the int~Ult mortality rates in nonmetropolitan (rural) counties in Florida. Methods: We evaluated the sufficiency of physicians providing maternity care in each rural county. We then constructed a mathematical model to compare physician availability with the infant mortali...

INTRODUCTION Proposed changes to family medicine maternity care training requirements, including a 2-tiered basic and advanced curriculum, have raised questions about their perceived feasibility and impact. The goal of this study was to elicit family medicine obstetrics faculty plans to adopt changes in their maternity care training of family physicians. METHODS We surveyed obstetrics curricu...

Maternity services in England are currently being reorganized. The success of the changes will be judged against the recommendations of the Changing Childbirth report. This paper describes the nature of maternity care and of general practice. It is argued that maternity care provision by general practitioners is a central and essential part of British general practice. Specifically, it is shown...

We are pleased to announce that the Women’s Advanced Maternity Fellowship for Rural Practitioners is now being offered through generous donations from Weyerhaeuser, Bank of Montreal, Bell Canada, Provincial Health Services Authority, Zellers, and Interior Health Authority. These organizations have offered support to further the provincial mandate of BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre to prov...

A hospital based cross-sectional qualitative study was conducted at Kintampo Municipal Hospital in Northern Ghana, to identify obstetric emergencies and barriers to emergency care seeking; examine the perspective of midwives regarding their role in maternity care and management of obstetric emergencies, and explore women's knowledge and response to obstetric emergencies. Study subjects comprise...

Historians have long used maternity records to understand the evolution of maternity services. More recently, epidemiologists have become interested in obstetric hospital records as a source of data (e.g. birth weight, social class), to study the influence of early life on future health and disease: life course epidemiology. Edinburgh and Aberdeen are unusual in holding detailed records from se...

Adolescent maternity involves relevant factors associated with each family, culture and society. This research aimed to describe the experiences in the trajectory of adolescent maternity. The oral history method was used, obtaining the narratives of 21 adolescent mothers living in a low income community located in São Paulo City, Brazil. The following descriptive categories emerged from the nar...

While planning a new maternity teaching hospital, we encountered the problem of relating number of delivery rooms to expected case load. The flow of patients in the teaching and research sections of the hospital could be predicted on the basis of previous experience, but for an attached "sector unit" the problem was much more difficult. The unit was intended to serve a new function, and therefo...

BACKGROUND Canada's diverse society and its statutory commitment to multiculturalism means that a synthesis of knowledge related to the healthcare experiences of immigrants is essential to realise the health potential for future Canadians. Although concerns about the maternity experiences of immigrants in Canada are relatively new, recent national guidelines explicitly call for the tailoring of...