Community-based maternity care
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Community-based maternity care
（Oxford medical publications）（Oxford general practice series, no. 43）
Oxford University Press, 1999
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This important book makes the case for placing maternity care in the community. It has been written by a multidisciplinary group. The first section considers the role and function of the participants in community-based maternity care; the woman, the midwife, and the GP. The second section discusses four major contemporary issues: the radically changing social background, the economics of care, audit, and education of the carers. Next the major clinical challenges in
maternity care are tackled: how to reduce the differences in morbidity and mortality which are associated with differences in age, social class and ethnicity; the care of disadvantaged groups; prematurity and low birth weight and their prevention; technology used in childbirth; and the fetal origins
of adult disease. Finally, all aspects of the clinical care carried out by Gps and midwives are covered. The editors hope that after reading this book midwives, Gps, and obstetricians should find the theory underpinning their work has been sharply defined and that their work will be more effective and evidence-based. The editors, a GP and a midwife, anticipate the resolution of the current tensions between midwife, GP, and obstetrician and look forward to a responsive, effective and sensitive
service for mothers and babies in the next millennium.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- Section I: The mother, the midwife, and the GP
- 2. The case for community-based maternity care
- 3. The midwife's potential: from ritual to radical
- 4. General practitioners' contribution - what's really going on?
- 5. Multidisciplinary teamwork in maternity care
- 6. Mothers' experiences! and Mothers' choices!
- Section II: Contemporary issues
- 7. The changing social context
- 8. The economics of maternity care
- 9. Auditing care
- 10. Educating the carers
- Section III: Clinical Challenges
- 11. Social class, age, and ethic differences in maternity outcomes
- 12. Women with special needs
- 13. The use of technology in maternity care
- 14. Born too soon, or too small - or both
- 15. Fetal origins of adult disease
- Section IV: Clinical Care
- 16. Pre-conception care, congenital disorders and the new genetics
- 17. New thoughts on the physiology of pregnancy
- 19. Latest views on the antenatal programme
- 20. Intercurrent illness during maternity care
- 21. Care in normal labour
- 22. Care of the mother after birth
- 23. Newborn babies and how to treat them
- 24. Breastfeeding
- Section V: Conclusions
- 25. Care for the third millennium
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