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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade ordet nurse-midwives.
1. The Emergency Contraceptive Pill – a Second Chance : Knowledge, Attitudes and Experiences Among Users and Providers
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to study knowledge, attitudes and experience of emergency contraceptive pills among women and providers. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. Focus-group interviews were conducted with teenage-girls (I) and with women who had purchased ECP without prescription (IV). LÄS MER
2. Surviving birth : Studies of a simplified neonatal resuscitation protocol in a low-income context using a mixed-methods approach
Sammanfattning : United Nations has lately stated ambitious health targets for 2030 in the Sustainable Development Goal agenda, following the already achieved progress between 1990 and 2015 when the number of children dying before the age of five was reduced by more than half. However, the mortality reduction in the first month of life after birth has not kept the same pace. LÄS MER
3. Quality of obstetric care in India's Janani Suraksha Yojana cash transfer program to promote facility births : studies from Madhya Pradesh province
Sammanfattning : Background: Improving maternal health remains a challenge in most of the developing countries. In-facility births is an accepted strategy to reduce maternal mortality. India, which accounts for 17% of global maternal deaths, had a high proportion of home births- 65.5% in 2005. LÄS MER
4. Women’s fear of childbirth and depressive symptoms before and after birth : Studies on the magnitude, challenges, and coping strategies in Pwani region, Tanzania
Sammanfattning : Most women experience fear of childbirth (FoB) and depressive symptoms (DS), which have been associated with adverse obstetric outcomes. Such adverse effects are rarely screened in clinical practice, and knowledge of magnitude, associated factors, challenges, and coping strategies is lacking in Tanzania. LÄS MER
5. The estrogen receptor in fish and effects of synthetic estrogens in the environment - Ecological and evolutionary perspectives and societal awareness
Sammanfattning : Synthetic hormones are a group of pharmaceuticals used for various human and animal treatments. However, consumption and disposal of these substances have also given rise to negative effects and environmental problems for organisms in the wild which is why these substances have been classified as estrogenic endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). LÄS MER