BACKGROUND As a matter of routine, midwives in Sweden have spoken with women about their experiences of labour in a so-called 'postpartum consultation'. However, the possibility of offering women this kind of consultation today is reduced due to shortage of both time and resources. The aim of this study was to explore the occurrence, women's requirements of, and experiences of a postpartum cons...

BACKGROUND Partograph is basically a graphic representation of the events of labour plotted against time in hours. It is designed for early detection of abnormal progress of labour and prevention of prolonged labour in order to reduce risk of Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH), sepsis, obstructed labour and its sequels such as ruptured uterus and obstetric fistula. However, little is known about docu...

division of labour (reproductive and sterile castes), overlapping generations and non-reproductive animals caring for the young. The second and stricter definition applies only to colonies of an advanced state of eusociality, in which reproductive conflicts among colony members are diminished such that workers are selected to maximise colony efficiency. A third definition states: " a superorgan...

Or in other countries with associated Reproduction Rights Organizations, may make photocopies in accordance with the license issued to them for this purpose. The designations employed in ILO publications, which are in conformity with United Nations practice, and the presentation of material therein do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the International Labour Off...

The article analyses the peculiarities of application standards International Labour Organization in judicial practice Ukraine. Despite fact that claimants very often, when filing lawsuits, strengthen their argumentation by referring to ILO Convention or Recommendation, these international do not form direct basis subsequent court decisions. This circumstance is viewed primarily as one resultin...

The Labour Contract Law of People’s Republic of China came into effect in 2008 to supplement the first Labour Law of 1994. The enactment of this law, however, coincided with the outbreak of the world’s financial tsunami at the same time. Many enterprises in China, especially manufacturing factories, faced tremendous difficulties of both the decreasing sales orders from the West and increasing o...

This study was conducted in Delta State Nigeria to establish a nexus between rural-urban migration and child labour. Random sampling was applied to select rural settlements and this study covers 450 sample farming households. The results show that rural-urban migration influence child labour (P