OBJECTIVE To describe the process of change and assess compliance and effect on maternal and infant outcome when the WHO package Effective Perinatal Care (EPC) was implemented at maternities in Ukraine. DESIGN Intervention study comparing outcomes before and during 2.5 years after training. SETTING Three maternities in Donetsk, Lutsk and Lviv 2003-2006. POPULATION Baseline data were colle...

IZA DP No. 11241 DECEMBER 2017 Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants* This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country’s population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants’ labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Surve...

First, I wonder how many women actually remained in the rural community throughout pregnancy. Patterson et al. investigated women after labor initiation and showed that 83% had remained there. However, some women may have been transferred before labor following antepartum triage, thus the women remaining in the community throughout pregnancy may be much fewer. A randomized controlled study show...

AIM Maternal periodontal infection has been recognized as a risk factor for premature and low birthweight infants. It is suspected that pathogens causing periodontal disease may translocate to the amniotic cavity and so contribute to triggering an adverse pregnancy outcome. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the presence of specific periodontal pathogens may influence the incidence o...

The aim of this study was to investigate a seasonal pattern of preterm births in Korea. Data were obtained from the national birth registry of the Korean Statistics Office and included all births in Korea during the period 2000-2012 (n = 6,310,800). Delivery dates were grouped by month of the year or by season (winter [December, January, February], spring [March, April, May], summer [June, July...

' The first account of any artificial method of bringing on premature labour was given to me by Dr. C. Kelly. He informed me that'about the year I756 there was a consultation of the most eminent men in London at that time, to consider of the moral rectitude of, and advantages which may be expected from, this practice, which met with their general approbation. The first case in which it was deem...

BACKGROUND Progesterone may be effective in prevention of premature birth in some high risk populations. Women with arrested premature labor are at risk of recurrent labor and maintenance therapy with standard tocolytics has not been successful. METHODS Randomized double blinded clinical trial of daily treatment with 200 mg vaginal progesterone in women with arrested premature labor and an up...