In 2015 the World Health Organisation set a new agenda. It issued a recommendation that maternal health services should engage with fathers for the sake of the health of mother …
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Welcome to all those who joined the readership of Family Included at the Toronto Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives! The readership of Family Included includes influential and visionary …
This is an account by Duncan Fisher of the Family Initiative, following the project team’s visit to an antenatal class at Bwari Hospital in Nigeria in March 2016. We were …
Family inclusive maternal healthcare is when fathers and other family members are actively engaged by healthcare workers in a partnership of care for a woman during her pregnancy, during labour …
The Family Included project is reported on the front page of a national newspaper in Nigeria. The project immediately creates inspiration in this vast country.
A qualitative Arabic study of 19 husbands of pregnant women explored their thoughts and feelings. The study found a number of consistent themes: Childrearing is a joint responsibility. But there …
Early next year (2016) Family Included will be commencing its first collaborative international research study. The research focuses on increasing awareness about a healthy diet in pregnancy and during the …
We asked Dr Anna Machin at the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford to comment on the research she published about the experiences of fathers …