Beyond birth: Women's concerns about post-birth care in an Australian urban community.

CONCLUSION: There is a clear need for community post-birth care that will provide mothers with the information and psychosocial support they need. Currently, private, home-birth midwives and pharmacy nurses are providing women-centred care more effectively than nurses in publicly funded CFHC or GPs. This seems to be linked to continuity of carer, and to service priorities, resulting in inequities and systematic variations in the quality of post-birth care. Further research on this important health care issue is recommended. PMID: 26522960 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26522960?dopt=Abstract

Source: Women Birth - October 27, 2015 Category: Midwifery Authors: Woodward BM, Zadoroznyj M, Benoit C Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research