The WHO Standards for Improving the Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in Health Facilities state that healthcare provision “must take into account the preferences and aspirations of individual women …
Tag: respectful care
A recent discussion article by Dr Ellen Tilden and colleagues has proposed that the principles underlying good end-of-life care are relevant to maternity care. The US Institute of Medicine guidelines …
Swedish fathers believe that maternal health service should focus on the health of the mother and baby. A Swedish study asked the question: what do fathers expect of maternal health …
A comment piece by Duncan Fisher of The Family Initiative. After the Second World War, birth in western countries was gradually moved out of the home and into hospitals. Infant …
A study in Kigali Rwanda interviewed 32 men about their attitudes to childbearing and their encounter with maternal health services. It revealed a tension between more progressive gender attitudes on …
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 birthing supporters of women in an Australian maternity hospital experience an “unbelonging paradox” – a sense of being needed but also in the way. This was in a well-developed …
A review of literature on supporting parents who have experienced a stillbirth – the death of a baby after 20 weeks in utero until immediately before birth – has concluded …
Researchers have looked at the quality of maternal health care in 1,342 large maternal health centres in five countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda and United Republic of Tanzania. They rated …
A North Ugandan study of why women do not give birth at health facilities recommends a family inclusive approach: health education for women, families and communities; and enhancing male involvement …