BACKGROUND Complete and timely health information is essential to inform public health decision-making for maternal and child health, but is often lacking in resource-constrained settings. Electronic medical record (EMR) systems are increasingly being adopted to support the delivery of health care, and are particularly amenable to maternal and child health services. An EMR system could enable t...

This study investigates Tasmanian maternity health providers’ and rural women’s experiences and views of continuity of care in the public health system and the feasibility of this model is explored. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 women who had childbirth experiences in six rural areas in Tasmania in the past five years. In addition 20 multidisciplinary maternity health provid...

background many dental problems such as tooth decay starts from childhood. in this regard, attitudes and beliefs of mothers about oral-dental health are important. the aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting oral-dental health in children of the mothers who referred to the qom health centers by using of the health belief model. materials and methods this is cross-sectional desc...

This study was conducted in Mwanza district in southern Malawi with the aim of investigating the individual's, community's and health workers' perception of male involvement in maternal health care. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were the methods used for data collection. The participants' responses generated two main themes namely male involvement in health facility care and o...

Syndicat CFTC v. CPAM provided an excellent opportunity for the Court of Justice European Union (‘CJEU’) to reconsider its position taken in Hofmann case, regarding question what extent additional maternity leave can be exclusively reserved female workers without infringing Directive 2006/54. Whilst CJEU has narrowed grey zone, it refrains from clearly indicating boundaries between ‘maternity’ ...

Objective: To investigate perinatal and neonatal factors that influence the child health. Methods: Longitudinal study of 3438 infants born from August 1st, 2019 to March 16th, 2020 in three maternity hospitals. The mothers were interviewed after birth, on seventh twenty-seventh day. Results: Most 20 34 years old, received seven or more doctor visits, had no gestational risk classified. children...

BACKGROUND Improving adherence to care standards is one way to improve quality of delivered care. This study aimed to determine the degree of providers' adherence to maternity care standards from the perspective of pregnant women. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 185 pregnant women in their ninth month of pregnancy who received maternity care from health centres in Tabriz, ...

BACKGROUND A lack of standard terminology or means to identify and define models of maternity care in Australia has prevented accurate evaluations of outcomes for mothers and babies in different models of maternity care. OBJECTIVE As part of the Commonwealth-funded National Maternity Data Development Project, a classification system was developed utilising a data set specification that define...

This paper presents standardized norms of child development in Shiraz (Iran). A birth cohort of317 randomly selected neonates born at the 14 maternity clinics of Shiraz during 2 random consecutive weeks in 1996 were followed at homes for 2 years at 12 designed occasions and their development examined by 2 trained public health officers and a community medicine expert. In gross-motor and per...