Background and aim: The third stage of labour is one of the most troublesome stages of child delivery. The basic principle of the third stage management is administrating prophylactic uterotonics. However, the time of its administration varies in different hospitals. This study aimed to determine the effect of intramuscular oxytocin injection after emergence of the fetal anterior shoulder or pl...

 Abstract Background and objective: Pain relief during labour is an important determinant of a women’s birth experience. There are numerous pain relief techniques which can be used either with or without pain medication. The aim of our study was to compare the effect of remifentanil alone and its effect in pain relief while using with ketamine during labour. Methods: After obtaining informed co...

Introduction In the context of rising institutional births in India the question often raised is the quality of care in increasingly crowded labour wards. The success of a policy that encourages hospital birth depends on improved standards of medical care, and also crucially, an adequate level of service satisfaction on the part of women and their families. Not only does quality of care influen...

Penutupan lahan merupakan faktor penting, terutama tutupan di sekitar Daerah Aliran Sungai (DAS). Monitoring terhadap pola perubahan penggunaan DAS penting untuk dilakukan sehingga dapat dipahami dan dampak yang terjadi. Perubahan penutupan terjadi Kabupaten Manokwari adalah dari adanya proses pembangunan infrastruktur dalam memenuhi kebutuhan manusia akan pemanfaatan lahan. Penelitian ini Pami...

The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with preferences or constraints affect...

The collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Bangladesh, which resulted loss at least 1134 lives and injuries to hundreds more, exposed brutality a global production system labour rights have become privatised, circumscribed, deterritorialised. Unprecedented for an incident its kind, affected families received $30 million “compensation” from apparel companies through Arrangement, ...

Child Labour, the global phenomenon is still existing in India due to lack of proper execution programme and policies. Poverty, parental guidance, awareness about programs influence peer groups were key countless reasons, which create a barrier an individual as well societal development. Global information shows that boys more indulged labour market, however, trends have been changed now compar...

It is motivated by an apparent paradox boys seem to participate more both in the labour market and in school than girls. This pattern breaks down once we take the household work done by girls into account. In this paper, we find that there is symmetry between the factors that make women’s contribution to the household economy less ‘visible’ than men’s and the factors that reduce girl’s involvem...

As most pregnancy-related deaths and morbidities are clustered around the time of childbirth, quality of care during this period is critical to the survival of pregnant women and their babies. Despite the wide acceptance of partograph as the central tool to optimize labour outcomes for over 40 years, its use has not successfully improved outcomes in many settings for several reasons. There are ...