Global Changes in Maternity Care
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Women's Health Care".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2023) | Viewed by 3922
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aboriginal maternal and child health; qualitative research methodologies
Interests: aboriginal health; maternal and child health; mental health; perinatal mental health; policy transformation and advocacy
Interests: aboriginal health; maternal and child health; mental health; perinatal mental health; youth mental health and wellbeing; social and environmental determinants of aboriginal health and wellbeing; organisational and workforce cultural responsiveness
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vulnerable women globally have been subject to ineffective and flawed maternity care, which ignores their complex community, cultural and personal circumstances. Poverty, institutional racism, remoteness, and a lack of suitable carers (midwives, nurses, doctors, health care workers) are all challenges that impede the development of appropriate maternity care models for vulnerable populations. Despite this, First Nations women are at the forefront of challenging the dominant biomedical approach to maternity care and birthing services, innovating and redefining how care is provided. The evidence generated informs and influences how changing maternity care delivery can better meet the needs of vulnerable populations. This Special Issue is focused on programs and measures and screening tools either in development or which have been operating over time and show marked improvement in how appropriate maternity care improves maternal and infant outcomes. The issue is also interested in research which considers access, cost, sustainability and suitability of maternity care in developing countries. We welcome papers on these, and associated topics which address Sustainable Development Goals 3, 5, 10 in specific relation to maternal and infant outcomes, or the 2017 World Health Organization standards for quality of maternal and newborn care to evaluate “the extent to which health care services improve desired health outcomes and [are] safe, effective, timely, efficient, equitable and people-centred” to be submitted for this Special Issue.
Dr. Tracy Reibel
Dr. Rhonda Marriott
Dr. Roz Walker
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Changing maternity care
- Maternity care cost
- Sustainable maternity care
- Vulnerable pregnant women
- Culturally safe care
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