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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Child birth"”.
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Determinants of home child birth practices among pregnant women in Oshikuku district, Omusati region, Namibia
Home child birth is one of the leading causes of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity worldwide but more especially in Africa. In Namibia, despite the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) effort to enhance Maternal and newborn health by encouraging women to deliver at health …
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ΜΕΤΑΒΟΛΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΛΙΚΗΣ ΚΡΕΑΤΙΝΟΦΩΣΦΟΚΙΝΑΣΗΣ ΟΡΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΩΝ ΙΣΟΕΝΖΥΜΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΥΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΠΙΔΡΑΣΗ ΑΝΑΙΣΘΗΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΩΝ ΠΑΡΑΓΟΝΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗ ΔΙΑΡΚΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΦΥΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΥ ΤΟΚΕΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΤΟΚΕΤΟΥ ΜΕ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΙΚΗ ΤΟΜΗ
… THE ANAESTHESIA ALLOWANCE, IN BOTH KINDS OF CHILD BIRTH. IT WAS ALSO PROVED THAT THE MEAN QUANTITY OF TOTAL SERUM CPK IN THENATURAL CHILD BIRTH, IS BIGGER THAN THAT IN THE CAESARIAN SECTION REGARDLESS OF HAVING TAKEN THE BLOOD SAMPLE BEFORE OR AFTER THE ANAESTHESIA ALLOWANCE. ATLAST IT SEEMED …
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Pain, courage, and wisdom: stories of women living with HIV
… of the disease (through prostitution and child birth) not as suffers of the deadly disease themselves (Carovano, 1991). This study recounts an insider's perspective of the learnings, strengths, and challenges of women living with HIV through their stories. Themes identified through …
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A study of Breast Abscesses among Breastfeeding mothers.
… pregnancy, management of breastfeeding following child birth, maternal and infant health status prior to development of the breast abscess and laboratory investigations on culture and sensitivity, the status for HIV and anaemia. The findings demonstrated that majority of mothers were first time …
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Sharing and transferring indigenous midwifery knowledge to the younger generation: The case of Hlokozi Village, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… midwifery. Thus, they seem to prefer hospital birth because they consider it safer than giving birth at home. However, there is still a need to share indigenous midwifery knowledge with the younger generation so that they can gaining insight, competency skills, and a specific approach about …
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Midwives, infant and maternal health in Monmouthshire, 1900-1938
… Midwives Act 1902 and 1936, the Notification of Births Act 1907 and 1915, the Maternity and Child Welfare Act 1918 and the 'Special Areas' Act of 1934.<br/><br/> Through the use of mainly primary sources and oral testimony, it will be argued that these social policies did extend the welfare …
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Towards formulating a comprehensive social security scheme for Lesotho
… nutrition, low life expectancy, an increase in child and infant mortality and morbidity, and increase of women's death in child birth. This situation is aggravated by: The impact of globalisation on all social and economic policies which left the most vulnerable to be among the poorest of the …
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Explaining the black-white gap in cognitive test scores: toward a theoretical model of adverse impact
… arise from the following disparate conditions: child birth order, maternal cognitive ability scores, the presence of learning materials in the home, parenting factors (maternal warmth and acceptance, safe physical environment, and maternal sensitivity), child birthweight, and family income. …
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Factors influencing utilization of birth preparedness and complication readness among antenatal women in Monze
Introduction:Birth preparedness is when a woman and her family prepare for normal birth and for complications that may arise during pregnancy and childbirth (MoH, 2004). Birth Preparedness and Complication readiness (BPCR) strategy was introduced in order to help pregnant women receive care from a …
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Construction of sexualities and sexual identities among young Ndebele women
… that the sexual socialization of the girl child by the family unit and schooling system impacts young women's understandings of their bodies and disregards their agency and autonomy to make decisions about their sexual lives. The study found that the isiNdebele female initiation process …
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Three essays examining social vulnerability and place-based determinants of health
… to obesogenic neighbourhood environments affect children and mothers’ BMI, and how socioeconomic status might modify such neighbourhood effects. Drawing from a mother-child birth cohort study based in Singapore, this study found that socioeconomic vulnerability modified the relationship between …
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Paternal Childbirth Satisfaction and Locus of Control
… done to evaluate the relationship of paternal childbirth satisfaction to locus of control. The purpose of the study was to measure locus of control and satisfaction with the childbirth experience and to determine what factors or events influence childbirth experience among fathers.</p> <p>The …
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Factors associated with maternal mortality in South Africa (2003-2008)
… Health complications during pregnancy and child birth are a major challenge worldwide. Statistics South African reports mortality data for South Africa classified according to various demographic characteristics and causes. The causes are classified using ICD10. Using the Statistics South …
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Factors Associated With Maternal Gestational Hypertension and Weight Gain Among Latinas Living In South Carolina
… to more serious outcomes in both the mother and child. Previous literature has shown that excessive weight gain is a risk factor for gestational hypertension. Latinos are the largest minority in the United States and 1 in 5 babies born in the US are to Latina mothers. Only a small amount of …
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The effect of early versus late enteral feeding on the hypermetabolic response of the paediatric burned patient
Background: Red Cross Children's Hospital treats an average of 2 000 children per annum with thermal injuries. Five hundred of these are new injuries and 60 patients have a total body surface area burn (TBSAB) that exceeds 20%. There is substantial evidence in adult burn literature that suggests …
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Helping with the Transition to Parenthood: An Evaluation of the Marriage Moments Program
… education, which is easily incorporated into childbirth education classes. The Marriage Moments curriculum stresses building marriage on a strong foundation of friendship and partnership. In this model, marital friendship is strengthened through a shared vision of life and important life …
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Skuld och oskuld : barnamord och barnkvävning i rättslig diskurs och praxis omkring 1680–1800
… her antithesis to the beyond-all-doubt guilty child murderess. It should be added that in practice these images often were more composite and complex. During the 1700s the spheres of maternity care (obstetrics), child care (paediatrics) and, not least, post-mortem examinations were …
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Presence of children and inequality in the household: employment, housework and earnings in European heterosexual couples
… then, the extent to which the presence of children is associated with less gender equality in women and men's participation in the work force, division of domestic chores, and relative earnings capacity is investigated; further, I consider how individuals embedded in different contextual …
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Life choices : university-educated mothers in a Japanese suburb
… but once they leave the workplace, especially on child-birth, they tend not to return to work afterwards, while women from a lower educational background are more likely to do so after their children grow up. I attempt to show how women's and mothers' multiple roles in both the public and the …
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Essays on the Economic Well-Being of Women
… and a higher likelihood of being responsible for children post-divorce. For each country we test the impact on the economic consequences of divorce of: (a) equalizing average wage rates between men and women of similar levels of education, (b) re-assigning custody of all children to men, and (c) …
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