Maternal Health Services - Methods
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Vietnam and Indonesia: diverging care dynamics.

29 Jun 2009 How do women and frontline health workers engage in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) in urban areas of Vietnam and Indonesia, where HIV is highly stigmatized and is associated with injecting drug use and sex work? This qualitative ... Read more...

The Collaboration for Maternal and Newborn Health: interprofessional maternity care education for medical, midwifery, and nursing students.

29 Jun 2009 The Collaboration for Maternal and Newborn Health, a multidisciplinary group of maternity care providers from the University of British Columbia (UBC), received funding from Health Canada to develop interprofessional education programs for health ... Read more...

MOSAIC (MOthers' Advocates In the Community): protocol and sample description of a cluster randomised trial of mentor mother support to reduce intimate partner violence among pregnant or recent mothers.

25 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent globally, experienced by a significant minority of women in the early childbearing years and is harmful to the mental and physical health of women and children. There are very few studies with ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Maternal Health Services - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Vietnam and Indonesia: diverging care dynamics. 29 Jun 2009
• The Collaboration for Maternal and Newborn Health: interprofessional maternity care education for medical, midwifery, and nursing students. 29 Jun 2009
• MOSAIC (MOthers' Advocates In the Community): protocol and sample description of a cluster randomised trial of mentor mother support to reduce intimate partner violence among pregnant or recent mothers. 25 May 2009
• Interactions between adolescent fathers and health care professionals during pregnancy, labor, and early postpartum. 29 Apr 2009
• Evaluating the role of the Sure Start Plus Adviser in providing integrated support for pregnant teenagers and young parents. 25 Apr 2009
• Public-sector maternal health programmes and services for rural Bangladesh. 30 Mar 2009
• Do women increase their use of reproductive health care when it becomes more available? Evidence from Indonesia. 27 Feb 2009
• Monitoring the quality of maternity care: how well are labour and delivery events reported in population health data? 27 Feb 2009
• The effect of health and nutrition education intervention on women's postpartum beliefs and practices: a randomized controlled trial. 30 Jan 2009
• The life and work of a rope midwife in Darfur. 30 Dec 2008
• Born in Poland. 30 Dec 2008
• The women's wheel: discovering the art of access. 30 Dec 2008
• A life less ordinary: a British midwife in Ethiopia, Part 1. Marshalling the troops. 30 Dec 2008
• Saving lives in Orissa. 30 Dec 2008
• Labouring to nurse: the work of rural nurses who provide maternity care. 18 Oct 2008
• Integral care for pregnant adolescents: impact on offspring. 29 Sep 2008
• Maternity waiting homes in Southern Lao PDR: the unique 'silk home'. 29 Sep 2008
• Accessing maternity care in rural Canada: there's more to the story than distance to a doctor. 30 Aug 2008
• Safety in maternity services: women's perspectives. 29 Jun 2008
• Just a normal disabled mum. 29 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Maternal Health Services'

Definition: Organized services to provide health care to expectant and nursing mothers.

Descriptor UI: D008427

Alternative terms: Maternal Health Services; Health Service, Maternal; Maternal Health Service; Service, Maternal Health; Services, Maternal Health; Health Services, Maternal;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.421.143.620; N02.421.800.500;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: specify geog; check also tags HUMAN; FEMALE & PREGNANCY; DF: MATERNAL HEALTH SERV