«BRAC seeks to experiment on improving quality at local health facilities: Data show that
obstetrical care at public facilities in Uganda is very weak, leading to high maternal mortality and risks to newborns.
Not exact matches
At Maricopa OBGYN, expectant mothers can expect more with advanced prenatal and
obstetrical care.
From April 22, 1999, to July 31, 2002, Project Viva enrolled pregnant women attending prenatal
care at 8
obstetrical offices of a multispecialty group practice in eastern Massachusetts.
As Chief of
Obstetrical Services
at Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial, a community hospital in Fremont, Michigan, Dr. Tami Michele worked in partnership with maternity and newborn
care staff, anesthesia providers, women's health, hospital administrators, and risk management to develop a consensus hospital policy and a mother's informed - decision tool to support VBAC within Spectrum Health, an integrated health system headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The study looked
at multiple interventions that can affect outcomes from both
obstetrical and neonatal perspectives, including prenatal
care, preterm labor, preterm premature rupture of membranes, surfactants in the delivery room and prolonged intubation sequences, to name a few.
Today, physicians across Penn Medicine's department of Obstetrics & Gynecology uphold Dickens's commitment to women's health, family planning, and preventative
care through programs that provide comprehensive prenatal and
obstetrical care, contraceptives to low - income patients
at risk for teen pregnancy, counseling and educational services.
Antenatal depression may not only alter development of stress - related biological systems in the fetus, but may also increase risk of
obstetrical complications.6 Postnatal depression may also be an early life stressor given known associations with lower levels of sensitive, responsive
care needed for infants» development of health attachment relationships, emotional regulation skills, interpersonal skills and stress response mechanisms.7 Early life stressors, such as those that might be associated with maternal depression, can influence brain development, which continues
at a rapid pace
at least for several years after birth.8 Problems in any of these aspects of development may disrupt the earliest stages of socio - emotional and cognitive development, predisposing to the later development of depression or other disorders.