OBJECTIVE To investigate women's own labour pain perception, experiences and satisfaction with health care providers at a referral hospital of Sindh. METHODS A descriptive study conducted on 400 labouring women at Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department Unit-II and IV Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad/Jamshoro from January 2006 to July 2006. Four hundred full term labouring women in first s...

Social sustainability issues such as child labour at a supplier pose significant reputational risk for companies. Therefore, many companies now require that suppliers follow certain standards or codes of conduct. However, in today’s complex supply chains with hundreds of sourcing locations, ongoing monitoring of compliance through audits for every supplier is hardly practical. Consequently, an ...

The reduction and eventual elimination of child poverty has become one of the central objectives of the new Labour Government in Britain. Measures to achieve this by changing taxes and bene®ts and promoting paid work are described. Their effects are assessed using a micro-simulation model. The policy changes will achieve a signi®cant reduction in child poverty but it will remain in 2001 substan...

on 30th November but were weak, and labour was described as slow till 4 a.m. on 1 st December, when the nurse detected a swelling posteriorly and sent for the resident. He found the os very high up, the head presenting above the brim and difficult to feel, and a swelling posteriorly below presenting part. Not being sure of his diagnosis he sent for an ambulance to transfer the patient to the Ma...

the patient was a very large child, and that the labour at her birth was painful and tedious, lasting three days; the midwife in attendance then sent for a doctor, but before his arrival the child was born, so that no instrumental interference was resorted to. No special weakness or rigidity was noticed during infancy; but at two years of age, as she could not walk like other children, she was ...

BACKGROUND In developing countries, most childbirth occurs at home and is not assisted by skilled attendants. The situation increases the risk of death for both mother and child and has severe maternal complications. The purpose of this study was to describe women's perceptions of homebirths in the medical districts of Ouargaye and Diapaga. METHODS A qualitative approach was used to gather in...