Monique Beauchemin, SF et Raymonde Gagnon, SF, BSc
ABSTRACT
L'accouchement en centre hospitalier avec une sage-femme au Québec est maintenant devenu une réalité depuis 2005, avec la réalisation d'ententes inter-établissements. Cet article présente l'historique de la pratique sage-femme en projets-pilotes en regard de l'accouchement en centre hospitalier (CH), les choix ayant mené au type d'intégration des sages-femmes dans le réseau...
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Jude Kornelson, PhD
ABSTRACT
Access to the delivery of health services, including midwifery, is a challenge for rural parturient women due, in part, to the closure of practices and centralization of health care services The Centre for Rural Health Research and the Midwives' Association of British Columbia (MABC) Rural Midwifery Committee convened a meeting in June 2008 consisting of researchers...
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Mary Sharpe, RM, PhD, Annette Rudel, BA and Michelle Turner ,BA, BSc
ABSTRACT
The social reform movement that led to the regulation of midwifery care in Ontario benefited from a discourse that tended to essentialize depictions of the woman receiving midwifery care, the midwife and the womanmidwife relationship. The Philosophy of Midwifery Care in Ontario document for women...
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Noël Patten, MA
ABSTRACT
In the 1988 Morgentaler Decision, the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion, but it did not end the challenges Canadian women face when accessing abortion.1,2,3,4 Access barriers in Canada include limited hospital-provided abortion services, lack of rural services and funding, unexpected costs, anti- choice health care providers and lobbying, and a growingscarcityofabortioncareproviders. Manyof these constraints could be eased...
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Elizabeth Darling, RM MSc
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Various North American guidelines regarding prenatal screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea provide conflicting recommendations, and reflect differences in the values underlying interpretation of the available evidence. A systematic search of the literature was conducted to identify evidence regarding the risks and benefits of prenatal screening and treatment of chlamydia and gonorrhea. The available evidence...
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Angela H. Reitsma
SUMMARY
This population-based cross-sectional study by Mori et al. presents routinely collected national data from England and Wales to provide estimates of intrapartum-related perinatal mortality rates for booked home births. Intrapartum-related perinatal mortality is a narrowing of the definition of perinatal mortality to exclude deaths from causes...
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Nadya Burton, PhD Rachel Ariss, SJD
ABSTRACT
Many researchers have called community midwifery of the 1970s and 1980s a social movement. At the heart of the many goals of that movement was the desire to bring about significant social change regarding the medical and social contexts of birth. This article is an initial exploration into the critical social voice...
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