Midwifery in the 21st century. Recommendations from the Pew Health Professions Commission/UCSF Center for the Health Professions 1998 Taskforce on Midwifery.

Full Abstract

Unprecedented changes in the delivery and financing of health care have produced angst and opportunity, criticism, and innovation. To explore the effects of these market-driven changes on midwifery, the University of California at San Francisco Center for the Health Professions convened a Taskforce on Midwifery in 1998. Consisting of eight experts from across the country, the Taskforce was charged with exploring the impact of health care system developments on midwifery, and identifying issues facing the profession and the roles midwives play in women's health care. The Taskforce answered its charge by offering 14 recommendations related to midwifery practice, regulation, education, research, and policy. The recommendations incorporate the Taskforce vision that the midwifery model of care should be embraced by, and incorporated into, the health care system in order to make it available to all women and their families. Midwives, educators, collaborators, and policymakers can use the recommendations to develop curricula, practice sites, and laws for an improved health care system that fully includes midwives and encompasses the midwifery model of care.

Author information

Author/s: Paine, L L (LL); Dower, C M (CM); O'Neil, E H (EH);

Affiliation: Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Maternal and Child Health, MA 02118-2526, USA.

Grants: MCJ-259501 (Agency:PHS HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Guideline; Journal Article; Practice Guideline; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Journal: Journal of nurse-midwifery (J Nurse Midwifery), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: -1999 Jul-Aug; vol 44 (issue 4) : pp 341-8

Dates: Created 1999/09/23; Completed 1999/09/23; Revised 2007/11/14;

PMID: 10466280, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Comments and Corrections

CommentIn: J Nurse Midwifery. 1999 Jul-Aug;44(4):337-40. (PMID: 10466279)

CommentIn: J Nurse Midwifery. 1999 Nov-Dec;44(6):603-4. (PMID: 10660375)

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