Asadi, Mahboobeh Noroozi, Mahnaz Alavi, Mousa
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundNumerous changes occur in different aspects of women’s lives in the postpartum period. Women’s adjusting with problems and taking advantage of this opportunity can develop their personality. In this regard, accurate knowledge of their experiences and feelings is necessary to help them to benefit from this period. Therefore, the present st...
Ssebagereka, Anthony Apolot, Rebecca Racheal Nyachwo, Evelyne Baelvina Ekirapa-Kiracho, Elizabeth
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International Journal for Equity in Health
IntroductionThis paper aimed at estimating the resources required to implement a community Score Card by a typical rural district health team in Uganda, as a mechanism for fostering accountability, utilization and quality of maternal and child healthcare service.MethodsThis costing analysis was done from the payer’s perspective using the ingredient...
Yu, Cheng Chen, Shuo Wang, Xinquan Wu, Gengze Zhang, Ye Fu, Chunjiang Hu, Cuimei Liu, Zhengbi Luo, Xiaoli Wang, Jialiang
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Microvascular research
The adverse environment in early life can modulate adult phenotype, including blood pressure. Our previous study shows, in a rat streptozotocin (STZ)-induced maternal diabetes model, fetal exposure to maternal diabetes is characterized by established hypertension in the offspring. However, the exact mechanisms are not known. Our present study found...
Adedokun, Sulaimon T. Yaya, Sanni
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Archives of Public Health
BackgroundDespite a global reduction of about 38% in maternal mortality rate between 2000 and 2017, sub-Saharan Africa is still experiencing high mortality among women. Access to high quality care before, during and after childbirth has been described as one of the effective means of reducing such mortality. In the sub-region, only 52% of women rec...
Sun, Jing Zhu, Yimin Li, Yongjin Li, Niuniu Liu, Tan Su, Xiao Dai, Zhiyong Zhang, Yanchun Pan, Lina Jiang, Wei
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundMaternal feeding anxiety (FA) was prevalent during puerperium and might affect infant feeding practices. This study was aimed to investigate the FA status in Chinese postpartum women and its relationship with infant feeding practices (FPs).MethodsParticipants were from the Mother-Infant Cohort Study of China, in which the dietary and feed...
Øie, Merete Glenne Aarnes, Ingebjørg Emilie Eilertsen, Lise Horndalsveen Söderström, Kerstin Ystrom, Eivind Håkansson, Ulrika
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Addictive behaviors reports
Mothers with substance use disorders (SUD) often show impairments in parental reflective functioning (PRF), which may have adverse effects on their capacity for sensitive caregiving. Parenting personality is also associated with caregiving. However, no studies have investigated how these individual factors may contribute to variance in PRF in mothe...
Mawarni, Atik Dharmawan, Yudhy Agushybana, Farid
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E3S Web of Conferences
Kemawi Village is one of the active Alert Village in the Semarang District. Based on information from the Public Health Center (PHC), the reporting of the Birth Planning and Complication Prevention Program (P4K) has not been done scheduled by the village midwife. The purpose of this research is to know how is the knowledge of midwife about the impo...
Carroll, Judith E Mahrer, Nicole E Shalowitz, Madeleine Ramey, Sharon Dunkel Schetter, Christine
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Psychoneuroendocrinology
Prenatal exposure to stress increases risk for suboptimal child and adult mental and physical health outcomes, hypothesized to occur via fetal exposure to maternal stress hormones that alter growth and development. One proposed pathway through which stress exposure in utero could affect the offspring is by accelerating cellular aging in the form of...
Fournier, Sara B. D’Errico, Jeanine N. Adler, Derek S. Kollontzi, Stamatina Goedken, Michael J. Fabris, Laura Yurkow, Edward J. Stapleton, Phoebe A.
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Particle and Fibre Toxicology
BackgroundPlastic is everywhere. It is used in food packaging, storage containers, electronics, furniture, clothing, and common single-use disposable items. Microplastic and nanoplastic particulates are formed from bulk fragmentation and disintegration of plastic pollution. Plastic particulates have recently been detected in indoor air and remote a...
Breit, Kristen R Rodriguez, Cristina Lei, Annie Thomas, Jennifer D
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Neurotoxicology and teratology
Cannabis is the most frequently used illicit drug among pregnant women, yet the potential consequences of prenatal cannabis exposure on development are not well understood. Electronic cigarettes have become an increasingly popular route of administration among pregnant women, in part to user's perception that e-cigarettes are a safer route for cons...