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Oxford General Practice Series #43: Community-Based Maternity Care ( Ogps )

by Geoffrey Marsh

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Synopsis:

This work makes the case for placing maternity care in the community. Various aspects of community care are looked at, such as changing social background, education of carers, how to reduce differences in mortality associated with differences in social background, and care of disadvantaged groups.
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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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Product Details

ISBN:
9780192627681
Subtitle:
Ogps
Editor:
Marsh, Geoffrey
Editor:
Marsh, Geoffrey
Editor:
Renfrew, Mary
Editor:
Renfrew, Mary
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Location:
Oxford ;
Subject:
Health Care Delivery
Subject:
Nursing - Home & Community Care
Subject:
Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health
Subject:
Community health services
Subject:
Maternal health services
Subject:
Medicine | Primary Care
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series:
Oxford General Practice Series
Series Volume:
43
Publication Date:
January 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
495
Dimensions:
9.08x6.10x1.06 in. 1.58 lbs.
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