Improving Maternity Services: The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, Vol 2

ISBN-13: 9781846190957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 152 str.

Denis Walsh

Opis

Birth centres are suitable for every woman whose birth is straightforward, which accounts for around 75% of all women. This inspirational guide shows how small scale maternity provision has a profound clinical and organisational advantage over large scale hospital provision, including saving of time and money by reducing intervention rates. It presents the thoughts and feelings of midwives and patients and how both enjoy the humane and compassionate care of the birth centre ethos. The book is invaluable for midwives, obstetricians, doulas, maternity care assistants and maternity service planners and managers. It also provides enlightening information for general practitioners and other health and social care professionals, maternity service users groups and academics with an interest in midwifery and health services. What birth centres do best is simply providing humane childbirth care. There are no high tech gadgetry, doctors or dramatic stories of childbirth rescues that make it into the media. Yet miracles' happen inside their walls every day as women have their babies after normal labours and births. Until now, there have been very few books detailing what happens in birth centres so that women and childbirth professionals can be introduced to an alternative beyond the large hospital model. This book provides a window in on the birth centre model and there are some exciting things to find there about childbirth care in the 21st century.' Denis Walsh, in the Preface

Spis treści

The crisis in western childbirth. Introducing birth centres. Who owns the women? Setting up the research project. Taking on the system and winning. Transforming people and buildings. Taking labour off the assembly line. Building community and social capital. Childbirth beyond models. Exploring matrescent care. Small really is beautiful.

O autorze

Denis Walsh, Sheila Kitzinger, Norman Ellis