OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of maternity waiting homes on the use of facility-based birthing services for women in two remote districts of Timor-Leste. METHODS A before-and-after study design was used to compare the number of facility-based births in women who lived at different distances (0-5, 6-25, 26-50 and > 50 km) from the health centre before and after implementation of maternity wa...

Effective collaboration between professional groups is increasingly seen as an essential element in good quality and safe health care. This is especially important in the context of maternity care, where most women have straightforward labour and birth experiences, but some require rapid transfer between care providers and settings. This article presents current accounts of collaboration--or la...

Mismatches between provision of paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and potential to benefit are examined. Deficiencies are most likely to occur in peripheral maternity units but futile CPR is more common in emergency departments where the child is unknown. Decision making in individual cases is best retained by the medical profession for the sake of the child and family. American st...

lished by the Association of Psychiatric Social Workers. 3s. 6d. This is a new publication. The second issue contains a number of interesting articles by psychiatric social workers in fields of work as varied as Child Guidance Clinics, Maternity and Child Welfare centres, Community Care and a community of Displaced Persons. There is a paper on a psychiatric social worker's personal experience i...

gradually being tackled and, if possible, set right; arrangements, too, are made for ensuring the attendance at every confinement of a carefully trained and certificated maternity nurse, and, when desired or required, of a qualified physician, while institutional, nursing, and hospital care is also being provided for any specially difficult or dangerous maternity illness. An example of what is ...

good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. for millions of child...

Enis Özkaya1, Evrim Çakır2, Mehmet Çınar3, Metin Altay3, Orhan Gelişen3, Fadıl Kara1 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Women’s Health Teaching and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 2Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıd Teaching and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Etlik Zübeyde Hanım M...

background: injuries are the first leading but predictable, avoidable and preventable cause of death among under five-year children worldwide. the present study aimed to identify the factors associated with mothers' beliefs and practices concerning injury prevention in under five-year children . methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from august to october 2011 in hamadan county, the...