June 2018

Editor’s Note: Obviously, this article on at-home care is not directly relate to community-based midwifery for healthy women with normal pregnancies choosing OOH childbirth services. However, it does address the increasingly dramatic changes in the social and medical role of acute-care hospitalization. Since the 1950s, the assumption in the US had been that anyone who […]

Reposted from: Maternal Health Task Force Blog (MHTF.org) Midwives Can Significantly Reduce Maternal Mortality But Need Support Posted on May 5, 2016 By: Kayla McGowan, Project Coordinator, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In honor of International Day of the Midwife, I sat down with Rima Jolivet, our Maternal Health Technical Director, for insight into her […]

Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorders: A Critical Absence from the Cesarean Section Debate

by faithgibson June 12, 2018

Originally Posted on the Maternal Health Task Force on  May 8, 2018   Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorders: A Critical Absence from the Cesarean Section Debate By: Eric Jauniaux, Professor in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London; Johan Vos, Chief Executive, International Federation of Gynecology and […]

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