Abstract: This study aims to assess the association between mode of delivery and human capital among young adults enrolled in 1982 1993 Pelotas birth cohorts, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brasil. In 1993, maternity hospitals municipality were daily visited, births identified, those live births, whose family lived urban area Pelotas, examined their mothers interviewed. Information on delivery, vagin...

entrepreneurship, as a general concept, has a history since time immemorial. however, theoretically this concept has recently been explored as an academic disipline whereby various research programs have been conducted on the positioning of entrepreneurship education and effectiveness of the study materials. so far some models have been presented by researchers, but far from reaching a global c...

BACKGROUND Obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASIS) has been identified as a major preventable risk factor for anal incontinence. OBJECTIVE Aim was to measure national variation in incidence of OASIS by socioeconomic status (SES). METHODS A retrospective population based case-control study using the data derived from the Finnish Medical Birth Register for the years 1991-2010. A total populat...

A field-based assessment was conducted to assess maternal and newborn health-care services, perinatal and newborn outcomes and associated risk factors at Bint Al-Huda Maternal and Newborn Teaching Hospital, a large referral hospital in southern Iraq. The multi-method approach used interviews, discussions, observation and review of perinatal and newborn outcome data. There is limited assessment ...

BACKGROUND The WHO advises against recumbent or supine position for longer periods during labour and birth and states that caregivers should encourage and support the woman to take the position in which she feels most comfortable. It has been suggested that upright positions may improve childbirth outcomes and reduce the risk for instrumental delivery; however RCTs of interventions to encourage...

BACKGROUND To examine the impact of occiput posterior position, compared to occiput anterior position, on neonatal outcomes in a setting where delayed pushing is practiced. The specific aim was to estimate the risk of acidaemia. METHODS Cohort study from a university hospital in Sweden between 2004 and 2012. Information was collected from a local database of 35,546 births. Umbilical artery sa...

The increasing incidence of cesarean births has become quite controversial. The practice of delivering virtually all women with prior cesarean section by repeat cesarean section is open to debate. To assess the risks and benefits of trial of vaginal birth in patients wlth prior cesarean sectioB, a retrospective review of the patients delivered at the Yamanashi Medical Universlty Hospltal was pe...

Background: Emergency Caesarean birth in labour has been associated with an increased chance of infection, bleeding (increasing the need of blood transfusion) and Deep Venous Thrombosis when compared with both vaginal birth and elective caesarean birth Objectives: to compare emergency and elective Caesarean section with regard to intra operative and post operative complications in both mother a...