High environmental temperature and preterm birth: a review of the evidence.

Objective: to examine the evidence in relation to preterm birth and high environmental temperature.

Background: this review was conducted against a background of global warming and an escalation in the frequency and severity of hot weather together with a rising preterm birth rate.

Methods: electronic health databases such as: SCOPUS, MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE and Maternity and Infant Care were searched for research articles, that examined preterm birth and high environmental temperature.

Women's experience of becoming caregivers to their ill partners: Gadamerian hermeneutics.

The recent morbidity trends in Australia indicate a steep rise in the number of individuals living with chronic illness who rely on the assistance of mostly women carers. Consequently, supporting and promoting carers' health should be a priority to sustain their health, and ensure their ability to provide care to a significant other. This interpretive hermeneutic study explored the lived experience of women during the transition of becoming carers to their male partners with various health conditions.

Advanced maternal age and adverse perinatal outcome: a review of the evidence.

Objective: To examine the evidence in relation to advanced maternal age (35-39 years), physiological risk and adverse perinatal outcome (stillbirth, low birth weight, preterm birth) in high-income countries.

Background: This review was conducted against a background of increasing maternal age (>35 years) and concerns for fetal and maternal welfare among this group. Consequent to these concerns, increasing trends of birth intervention such as caesarean section and instrumental birth are seen.