Kaqchikel Midwives, Home Births, and Emergency Obstetric Referrals in Guatemala Contextualizing the Choice to Stay at Home  

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Berry, Nicole S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 8 (Apr. 2006), page 1958-1969.
Topik: maternal health; maternal mortality; safe motherhood initiative; emergency obstetric care midwives; birth; kaqchikel maya; guatemala

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.3 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Maternal mortality is highest in those countries whose health budgets are restricted. Practical strategies employed in the international safe motherhood initiative, therefore, must be both effective and economical. investing in emergency obstetric care resources has been touted as one such strategy. This investment aims to insure significant improvements are made in regional health centers and a chain of referral is put into place so that only problem cases are attended by the most skilled health workers. This article examines how this model of referral functions in solola. guatemala, where most kaqchikel mayan women give birth at home with a traditional midwife, and no skilled biomedical attendant is availavle at the birth to make a referral. Ethnographic data is used to explore reasons why women do not go to the hospital at the first understand the biomedical information about dangers in birth, but rather that this information fails to fit into an already existing social system of understanding birth and birt related knowledge.

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