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Real-world practices in reproductive health and counselling for women with epilepsy: A Canadian perspective.
Epilepsy Behav
February 2024
Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address:
Article Synopsis
- Canadian women with epilepsy face special challenges when it comes to reproductive health because of their seizures and medications.
- A study showed that many healthcare professionals in Canada discuss birth control options and often recommend IUDs, but not all share important birth plans with other doctors.
- Most doctors believe breastfeeding is safe for women on seizure medications and provide helpful advice after giving birth, but there are still some areas where care could be improved.
Medicaid and newborn care: challenges and opportunities.
J Perinatol
August 2023
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Since its creation in 1965, Medicaid has operated as a federal-state partnership that provides a robust set of medical benefits to low-income families, including pregnant people and infants. In many ways, Medicaid has met its initial promise. However, medical benefits, provider payments, and key administrative procedures regarding eligibility, enrollment, and access to care vary substantially among state Medicaid programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntegration of postpartum care into child health and immunization services in Burkina Faso: findings from a cross-sectional study.
Reprod Health
October 2018
International Centre for Reproductive Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Department of Uro-Gynaecology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Background: The Missed Opportunities for Maternal and Infant Health (MOMI) project, which aimed at upgrading maternal and infant postpartum care (PPC), implemented a package of interventions including the integration of maternal PPC in infant immunization services in 12 health facilities in Kaya Health district in Burkina Faso from 2013 to 2015. This paper assesses the coverage and the quality of combined mother-infant PPC in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services (RMNCH).
Methods: We conducted a mixed methods study with cross-sectional surveys before and after the intervention in the Kaya health and demographic surveillance system.
A randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of a postnatal psychoeducation programme on outcomes of primiparas: study protocol.
J Adv Nurs
January 2015
School of Health Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore.
Aim: To report a trial protocol that evaluates the effectiveness of postnatal psychoeducation programme in improving maternal parental self-efficacy and social support and in reducing postnatal depression among primiparas.
Background: Primiparas encounter physical, psychosocial and newborn care challenges in the early postnatal period. However, primiparas do not receive adequate professional support after early discharge from hospitals, thus hindering their adaptation to new role as mothers and smooth transition to motherhood.
Women identified with HIV at labor and delivery: testing, disclosing and linking to care challenges.
Matern Child Health J
September 2008
CORE Center and Department of Medicine, Stroger (Formerly Cook County) Hospital, 2020 W. Harrison, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Objective: To determine if women with undocumented HIV status in late pregnancy or at labor and delivery who are rapidly tested and identified as HIV infected have high-risk behaviors and psychosocial obstacles hindering postpartum follow-up.
Methods: Consenting participants (women with undocumented HIV status and > or =24 weeks gestational age (GA) and imminent delivery or > or =34 weeks GA) in 6 cities were rapidly tested and interviewed. HIV-positive women were offered follow-up.
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