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A Social Model for Maternity Care
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Edited By
Mavis Kirkham, RN, RM, BA, MA, PhD, Cert Ed (Adult), FP Nursing Cert
Description
A comprehensive review of the current status of birth centers internationally, looking at the evidence for their success as well as the problems in establishing them.
Audience
Practising midwives; students taking a master's degree in Midwifery, midwifery students, maternity services managers/policy makers, GP trainees
Contents
Foreword: Baroness Cumberlege
Introduction: Mavis Kirkham
Section 1: Birth Centres in the UK
Chapter 1 – Birth Centres in the
UK (Julie Hall)
Chapter 2 – Setting up a Birth Centre (Helen Shallow)
Chapter 3 – The Wiltshire Model (Rick Porter and/or Vicky
Tinsley)
Chapter 4 – Grantham's Midwife Managed Unit (Diane Fraser, Kim Watts, Fehmidah Munir)
Chapter 5 – Crowborough (Richard
Hallett)
Section 2: The Edgeware Birth Centre
Chapter 6 – Consumers in the driving seat: a public health perspective (Ellizabeth
Manero, Linda Turner, Stephen Farrow)
Chapter 7 – From concept to the Working Model (Olive Jones, Jane Walker)
Chapter 8 – Trusts
in Partnership (John Spencer, Susan Dolman)
Chapter 9 – A GPs Perspective (Jean Beney)
Chapter 10 – Evaluation of the Edgeware
Birth Centre (Jean Chapple, Dawn Saunders, Mary Boulton)
Chapter 11 – The Economic Implications (Julie Ratcliffe)
Chapter 12 –
Midwifery Assistants (Jane Walker)
Section 3 – Birth Centres in the Wider World
Chapter 13 – The New Zealand Experience (Sally
Pairman, Karen Guilliland)
Chapter 14 – RCT of Birth Centre Care in Stockholm (Ulla Waldenstrom)
Chapter 15 – Birth Centres in
Australia (Kate Griew and Jen Byrne)
Chapter 16 – Birth Centres in Germany (Monika Selow/Elisabeth Groh)
Chapter 17 – Birth Centres
in Austria (Beate Elvira Pfeifenberger-Lamprecht)
Chapter 18 – An interview with Suzanne de Bearn of Saint Therese Maternity Home,
France
Chapter 19 – Birth Centres in Italy (Verene Schmid)
Chapter 20 – Birth Centres in North America (Linda Arnold, Angela Frans)
Section
4 – The Way Forward (Mavis Kirkham)
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 284 pages, publication date: MAY-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5497-5
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5497-X
Imprint: BOOKS FOR MIDWIVES
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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