Sentences with phrase «access midwifery care»

The majority of pregnant women are able to access midwifery care in a hospital, birth center, and / or home environment.

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Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

CFAM is working to improve the health of mothers and babies by increasing access to midwifery care.

The lack of midwifery led units and midwifery led care options is however stark and in direct contrast to options available to mothers in the UK where 99 % of women have access to both an obstetric - led unit and a midwife - led unit within a 60 minute drive of their home.

«Unfortunately, the women who could most benefit from out - of - hospital midwifery care are those who are least likely to have access to Certified Professional Midwives with the specialized training needed to provide it,» said Susan Jenkins, Legal Counsel for The Big Push for Midwives Campaign.

Women who choose midwifery - led care and home birth may have difficulty accessing these services in the first place, and if they do secure the service face numerous other administrative obstacles that the HSE needs to resolve..

ROTHMANAnd I also just want to say that it is really great to have physicians like Dr. Downing, who understand the midwifery model, understand our scope of practice and where it intersects with obstetrics, so that when we do have something going on at a homebirth where we're not sure things are going well and we were starting to feel like maybe we need to access medical technology, that we have people like Dr. Downing that we can call and say, here's what's going on, we're coming in, and that we know that we and our clients will be received with compassion and respect and understanding of what has come before, so that we never have to hesitate to bring someone in knowing that they're gonna get that good care.

Lakeland Midwifery Care is a person - centered practice focused on access, care, and experieCare is a person - centered practice focused on access, care, and experiecare, and experience.

The Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), established in 1982, is a professional membership organization that promotes excellence in midwifery practice, endorses diversity in educational backgrounds and practice styles, and is dedicated to unifying and strengthening the profession, thereby increasing access to quality health care and improving outcomes for women, babies, families, and communities.

Together they designed a mixed - methods study to explore topics that have not previously been detailed — women's preferences for model of care; perceptions of reasons for intervention; access to midwifery care; and experiences of autonomy, respect, discrimination, or coercion, when participating in a shared decision making process.

After an extensive content validation process, including expert panel review by all Steering Committee members and all work group members, the final instrument included 130 core items that collected information on demographics, access to maternity care, preferences for model of care, maternal and newborn outcomes, knowledge of midwifery care, and experience of care including the process of decision - making.

It is guided by research evidence that pregnant women and mothers benefit from having access to midwifery care throughout their childbearing experience.

Researchers can access the de-identified datasets to study the process and outcomes of midwifery care, physiologic birth, and place of delivery.

The Legislature finds that access to prenatal care and delivery services is limited by the inadequate number of providers of such services and that the regulated practice of midwifery may help to reduce this shortage.

April 2014 — The US Midwifery Education, Regulation, and Association (US MERA) Workgroup met on April 10 - 13, 2014 to continue discussions on how to expand access to high quality midwifery care and physiologic birth for women in all birth settings iMidwifery Education, Regulation, and Association (US MERA) Workgroup met on April 10 - 13, 2014 to continue discussions on how to expand access to high quality midwifery care and physiologic birth for women in all birth settings imidwifery care and physiologic birth for women in all birth settings in the US.

The Buckley report's new information on the hormonal physiology of birth makes an even clearer case for the importance of access to culturally competent midwifery care for women of color as a way to address the disturbing and unacceptable disparity in outcomes for mothers and babies of color.

With the establishment of a demonstration site for midwifery in Fredericton, New Brunswick families will now have access to another option for maternity care.

women have access to midwifery care.

We will continue to shed light on pressing issues that affect maternity care like evidence - based are, obstetric violence, informed consent, access to midwifery care, access to vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), and racial and economic disparities, while helping local communities make the changes that best work for their own populations.»

«From a policy perspective, this study should encourage legislators and regulators to consider efforts to safely expand access to midwifery care for low - risk pregnancies,» she notes.

This raises the possibility of improving value in maternity care through greater access to midwifery care for childbearing women in the United States.»

The authors say their findings raise the possibility that greater access to midwifery care, which is low in the United States, might enhance perinatal care and lower costs for low - risk women.

A number of studies have shown that expanding their scope of practice and giving midwives more autonomy can increase women's access to midwifery care.»

Fern Valley Natural Health was created to continue to serve the families that she had participated in their midwifery care and an opportunity for other families in the community to have access to Naturopathic Medicine.