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Sustainable Birth in Disruptive Times

Sustainable Birth in Disruptive Times

Gutschow, Kim
Davis-Floyd, Robbie
Daviss, Betty-Anne

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Series: Global Maternal and Child Health

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 3030547744
ISBN13: 9783030547745
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 23 2021
Pages: 317
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This contributed volume explores flexible, adaptable, and sustainable solutions to the shockingly high costs of birth across the globe. It presents innovative and collaborative maternity care practices and policies that are intersectional, human rights-based, transdisciplinary, science-driven, and community-based. Each chapter describes participatory and midwifery-oriented care that helps improve maternal and newborn outcomes within minoritized populations. The featured case studies respond to resource constraints and inequities of access by transforming relations between providers and families or by creating more egalitarian relations among diverse providers such as midwives, obstetricians, and nurses that minimize inefficient hierarchies within maternity care. The authors build on a growing awareness that quality and respectful midwifery care has lower costs and improved outcomes for child bearers, newborns, and providers. Topics include:

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