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Women-Centered Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth

Sara Shields Lucy Candib

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English
Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
25 January 2010
Patient-Centered Care Series Series Editors:

Moira Stewart Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman A woman-centered approach to pregnancy must be flexible enough to address the variety of women's experiences around the world encompassing a variety of medical conditions cultures and family structures. It must also include women who choose not to carry a pregnancy or experience a miscarriage. This unique woman-centered text explores all these issues and more providing a vital resource for primary care maternity clinicians and trainees including family physicians nurse practitioners women's health clinicians midwives obstetrical nurses and obstetricians. It applies the powerful proven model of patient-centered care to pregnancy and birth - an expansion beyond previous applications to various chronic illnesses.

Women-Centered Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth incorporates dozens of vignettes describing clinicians' approaches to woman-centered maternity care with women and families from a variety of social cultural and economic situations facing common or problematic challenges over the course of prenatal care birth and the postpartum period. For more information on other titles in this series please click here

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Imprint:   Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   1st New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 174mm,  Spine: 39mm
Weight:   1.040kg
ISBN:   9781846191619
ISBN 10:   1846191610
Pages:   592
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Primary ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Part 1 � The magnitude of the problem. Part 2 � Understanding the experience. Part 3 � Understanding the woman. Part 4 � Finding common ground. Part 5 � Prevention and health promotion. Part 6 � Enhancing the clinical relationship. Part 7 � Being realistic.

SARA G. SHIELDS, M.D., M.S. Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts. LUCY M. CANDIB, M.D. Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health University of Massachusetts.

Reviews for Women-Centered Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth

'Contains a wealth of information on how to talk to patients and how to better understand their feelings and experiences, while incorporating those feelings and experiences into their antepartum/intrapartum care.' Doody Book Reviews


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