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Components of perinatal palliative care : an integrative review Ghent University Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Access to maternal and perinatal health services: lessons from successful and less successful examples of improving access to safe delivery and care of the newborn Institute of Tropical Medicine
Summary The huge majority of the annual 6.3 million perinatal deaths and half a million maternal deaths take place in developing countries and are avoidable. However, most of the interventions aiming at reducing perinatal and maternal deaths need a health care system offering appropriate antenatal care and quality delivery care, including basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care facilities. To promote the uptake of quality care, there ...
Integration of perinatal mental health care into district health services in Uganda: why is it not happening? the Four Domain Integrated Health (4DIH) explanatory framework Institute of Tropical Medicine
The Sustainable Development Goals recognise mental health and well-being as a target area, however, mobilizing funding and prioritisation of the same remains a challenge. Perinatal mental health care has the potential for incorporation and integration across the overall maternal health agenda, and can be especially relevant for low- and middle-income countries in their overall health systems strengthening strategies. This study aimed at ...
Towards an integrated perinatal care pathway for vulnerable women: The development and validation of quality indicators University of Antwerp Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Objective: Development and validation of a set of quality indicators for vulnerable women during the perinatal period. Design: A three-phase method was used. Phase 1 consisted of a literature review to identify publications for the development of care domains and potential QIs, as well as a quality assessment by the research team. In phase 2 an expert panel assessed the set of concept QIs in a modified three-round Delphi survey. Finally, ...
Perinatal mental health care for mothers with schizophrenia in Flanders University of Antwerp
Slechts 0,8% van de opnames op onze moeder-baby-unit betreft moeders met schizofrenie, terwijl ongeveer de helft van de patiënten met schizofrenie moeder wordt. Moeders met schizofrenie leven vaker in complexe probleemsituaties, verliezen hierdoor meer de voogdij over hun kinderen en ervaren stigma wat betreft hun ouderschapskwaliteiten. Literatuuronderzoek toont dat ze daarom zorg vermijden. Het opnemen van de rol als moeder kan bijdragen aan ...
Aspects of health economic evaluations in perinatal care in an international context. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
There is an increasing interest of health economic evaluations as an outcome to assess and compare health effects and costs of interventions, treatments or medical devices, next to the clinical outcomes. In perinatal care, the number of empirical studies including health economic evaluations are growing. An example of such a study is the OptiBIRTH trial, a multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial, conducted in Germany, Ireland and Italy, ...
A template for defining the perinatal care of monochorionic twins: the Istanbul international ad hoc committee KU Leuven
This template was produced by the Working Group on Multiple Pregnancy and was endorsed by the International Board of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine. The purpose of this document is to expand the 2007 Istanbul international consensus statement on the perinatal care of multiple pregnancy and to focus on the care of monochorionic (MC) twins. The document represents the view and opinion of individuals who composed this ad hoc committee ...