A review of studies of postnatal education interventions in low and middle-income countries has found 77 reports, 91% of which describe interventions that exclude fathers and other carers. The seven …
Category: Excluding families – examples
A small study from Ghana, involving interviews with nine fathers of preterm babies, has shown high levels of exclusion by healthcare workers and demonstrates how this directly encourages a traditional …
A small study in the UK has explored why health visitors in UK, who provide care to families after a baby is born, do not provide mental health support to …
The WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist has been designed and tested to help prevent the major worldwide causes of maternal deaths, intrapartum-related stillbirths and neonatal deaths. Could a family inclusive version …
A recent review of mobile maternal health apps presents five services, none of which are family inclusive. GiftedMom operates in Cameroon and Nigeria and is followed by about 7000 mothers. …
Following our critical report on research from Bangladesh, which failed to engage with the influence of fathers on attendance at antenatal appointments, another study from Pakistan follows the same pattern. …
A study in rural Bangladesh explored why so many mothers still give birth at home rather than in a health centre. 66 interviews were carried out in 2012 and 2013 …
The factors that result in men not participating in maternal healthcare are multiple and result from a whole culture that defines who does what in a society. We have shown …
A qualitative Swedish study with nurses caring for families after a baby is born has demonstrated the challenges for child health of not implementing a family inclusive approach. Researchers led …
Babycenter, a US based corporation, with funding also from multinational Johnson & Johnson, has announced the launch of a new information service for mothers in South Africa: Momconnect. But, as …