This article describes Brazilian midwives' struggle to establish their professional field in the arena of maternal and child health in Brazil. Despite the obstacles, midwives continue trying to claim their social space, ...

The Lancet Series on Midwifery and The State of the World's Midwifery 2014 called on countries to expand the midwifery workforce as a key strategy to improve the health of women and newborns and lower maternal and newborn ...

Purpose To identify and compare the perception of professional empowerment among midwifery students according to the type of curriculum. Research Question During 2009, a Competence Based Education (CBE) curriculum was ...

Objective: to determine Chilean midwives' views with regard to Chilean women's health-care needs in midlife. The aim was also to explore Chilean midwifery students' views on the clinical care provided to women in midlife. ...

Introduction: Midwifery care is associated with positive birth outcomes, access to community birth options, and judicious use of interventions. The aim of this study was to characterize and compare maternity care preferences ...

Background: Clinicians in developing countries have had limited access to continuing education (CE) outside major cities, and CE strategies have had limited impact on sustainable change in performance. New educational tools ...

Introduction: Midwifery care is associated with positive birth outcomes, access to community birth options, and judicious use of interventions. The aim of this study was to characterize and compare maternity care preferences ...

Background: The acquisition of research skills by midwifery students is increasingly important especially for midwifery programmes in universities. Recently, universities in Chile have included the development of research ...