OBJECTIVE To examine mortality in a representative nationwide sample of homeless and marginally housed people living in shelters, rooming houses, and hotels. DESIGN Follow-up study. SETTING Canada 1991-2001. PARTICIPANTS 15 100 homeless and marginally housed people enumerated in 1991 census. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Age specific and age standardised mortality rates, remaining life expectan...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to assess the expected and received informative support in lactation in hospitalized lying-in women. Such variables as the number of deliveries and participation in antenatal classes were taken into consideration. MATERIAL AND METHODS The research was conducted from May to September 2005, and involved 202 lying-in women staying in maternity wards in Chair and ...

Breast milk is widely accepted as the ideal source of nutrition for infants. In order to ensure success in breastfeeding, it is important that it be initiated as early as possible during the neonatal period. This is facilitated by skin-to-skin contact between the mother and infant immediately following birth. When possible, the infant should be allowed to root and latch on spontaneously within ...

ABSTRACT Objectives: to compare the parameters of activity/rest cycle early postpartum breastfeeding women under a controlled and uncontrolled long wavelength ray light regimen. Methods: quasi-experimental study with their babies during postnatal rooming-in, São Paulo, Brazil. Participants were allocated either an experimental (intervention) or comparison group. The intervention involved exposu...

Despite most infants born at 34+0 through 36+7 weeks’ gestation are thought to be at low risk during the birth hospitalization and have a neonatal course with no significant complications, they are physiologically and metabolically immature with an higher rates of morbidity and mortality than term infants [1]. Most common medical condition associated with latepreterm births are respiratory dist...

In this position paper-one of six care practice papers published by Lamaze International and reprinted here with permission-the value of keeping mothers and their babies together from the moment of birth is discussed and presented as an evidenced-based practice that helps promote, protect, and support normal birth. The paper is written for childbearing women and their families. Babies held skin...