OBJECTIVE To describe family doctors' contribution to maternity care in Canada and to observe the influence of age, sex, region of the country, and practice population on provision of maternity care. DESIGN SURVEY College of Family Physicians of Canada's Janus Project national family physician survey. SETTING All 10 provinces and two territories. PARTICIPANTS Random sample of family ph...

In their article, “Proportion of Family Physicians Providing Maternity Care Continues to Decline,” Tong et al outlined that the proportion of US family physicians who report providing maternity care declined from 23.3% in 2000 to 9.7% in 2010. This decline has major health care implications because there is growing evidence that the adequacy of prenatal care for women in rural and medically und...

Sara Erol1, Banu Aydın1, Dilek Dilli1, Barış Malbora2, Serdar Beken1, Hasibe Gökçe Çınar3, Ayşegül Zenciroğlu1, nurullah Okumuş1 1Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Training and Research Hospital, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ankara, Turkey 2Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Training and Research Hospital, Pediatric Hematology Unit, Ankara, Turkey 3Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Tra...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The studies measured Out-of-Pocket Expenditure (OOPE) for hospital births previously suffer from serious data limitations. To overcome such limitations, we designed a hospital-based study for measuring the levels and factors of OOPE on maternity care for hospital births by its detailed components. METHODS Data were collected from women for non-complicated deliveries 2...

Background: Pregnancy and childbirth are momentous events, with deeply personal social significance in the lives of women, families, communities. Around world, every country community, pregnancy immensely important events women families. So, study aimed to assess perception regarding respectful maternity care among postnatal mothers.
 Materials Methods: A cross-sectional was conducted moth...

INTRODUCTION Midwifery has been regulated and publicly funded in British Columbia since 1998. Midwives are currently concentrated in urban areas; access to care is limited in rural communities. Rural midwifery practice can be challenging because of low birth numbers, solo practice, lack of on-site cesareans and specialist backup, and interprofessional tensions resulting from the integration of ...

There has been substantial reform in the past decade in the provision of maternal and child health services, and specifically regarding models of maternity care. Increasingly, midwives are working together in small groups to provide midwife-led continuity of care. This article reviews the current evidence for models of maternity care that provide midwifery continuity of care, in terms of their ...

The objective of this study was to compare the quality of maternity care in 2 types of government-run hospital in the town of Khorram Abad, Islamic Republic of Iran in 2009: a university-linked teaching and a social security organization non-teaching hospital. A sample of 264 women hospitalized in the delivery and postpartum wards was selected. Data collection was done using interviews with mot...

The role of men in maternity care in Africa is understudied, despite their economic dominance and decision making power. In a patriarchal society like northern Nigeria, pregnancy and childbirth are often regarded as exclusively women’s affairs. Using data from interviewer administered questionnaires and in-depth interviews; we assessed birth preparedness, complication readiness and male partici...