Family-centred perinatal care : improving pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care / Beverley Chalmers, DSc(Med), PhD, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge medicinePublisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: xii, 226 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781316627952 (pbk.) :
- 618.3206 23
- RG627 .C467 2017
- WQ 210
Formerly CIP. Uk.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Since childbirth became a medicalized - and usually hospitalized - event a century ago, women's and families' psychosocial needs have been relegated to a somewhat peripheral role within the clinically focussed hierarchy of medical care. This text reinstates psychosocial issues as a primary focus of care, together with clinical excellence. Family-centred care is a familiar phrase in today's maternity services, with professional guidelines and hospital policies including the term in their care protocols; however, few definitions, and no specific standards, for family-centred care exist. While all caregivers and care services are likely to define their care as sensitive to women's needs, and family-centred, the actual implementation of a family-centred approach - despite it being a current fashion in care - is still inadequate. This book clearly defines family-centred perinatal care, and outlines how truly family-centred care can, and should, be implemented, and how, and where, this has been done"--Provided by publisher.
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