Attitudes towards home birth in the USA

Freeze, Rixa

doi:10.1586/eog.10.22

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“…Women, mostly white upper‐middle‐class and college‐educated, choose to homebirth even though childbirth has come to be seen as a dangerous procedure, requiring medical control (Fullerton et al 2007; De Jonge et al 2009). Specifically, planned homebirth is seen as fraught with medical risk for the mother and the baby, whereas hospital births are safer (Bastian et al 1999; Freeze 2010). Accordingly, planned homebirth is not consistent with the objectives of childbirth policy or may even contradict them, and is therefore not condoned by the government, professional organisations, the insurance industry, or even society, for example in the United States (Cassidy 2006).…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Exit Response In Practicementioning

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Entrepreneurial Exit Response to Dissatisfaction With Public Services

Gofen

2012

Public Administration

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Following Hirschman's seminal Exit, Voice and Loyalty, an exit response to dissatisfaction with public services is often portrayed as a replacement of one service provider with another, depending on the availability of alternatives. This article enriches Hirschman's typology by conceptualising an ‘entrepreneurial exit' response referring to citizens who exit proactively by creating a viable alternative themselves. The practical aspects of entrepreneurial exit are analysed based on five manifestations: planned homebirth, homeschooling, urban self‐defence groups, children with disabilities, and claim clubs in the American West. Whereas citizens' roles within the public service sphere are referred to as ‘participators’, ‘customers’, and ‘co‐producers', entrepreneurial exit indicates the entrepreneurial role citizens may play. Similar to the additional forms of exit, entrepreneurial exit becomes meaningful if the newly introduced form of service gains social acceptance, especially when it reflects policy non‐compliance within which laymen are transformed into providers of professional services.

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Section: Entrepreneurial Exit Response In Practicementioning

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Entrepreneurial Exit Response to Dissatisfaction With Public Services

Gofen

2012

Public Administration

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“…22 Although women in this study reported trusting midwife care, they strongly rejected home birth and preferred hospital delivery due to safety concerns, 23,24 unlike American and Dutch women, many of whom preferred home birth for the psychological sense of safety, familiar environment and less intensive medical intervention and to avoid hospital-acquired infections. 25 Generally, Jordanian women preferred hospitals as secure, medically supervised and controlled environments, in contrast to the home.…”

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Factors influencing women's attitudes towards midwifery: Tool validation

Al-Rajabi

Al‐Hadid²,

Subih

2014

Int J of Nursing Practice

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The purpose of this study was to validate a tool that explores the factors influencing women's opinion of and attitudes towards midwifery. A descriptive, cross-sectional design was used. The sample consisted of 526 Jordanian women. Cluster sampling was used to ensure a representative sample; then, convenience sampling was performed. The instrument asked non-identifying demographic questions and covered factors reported in literature to influence women's attitudes towards and views of the profession. The resulting instrument consisted of five factors explained by 29 items. These factors were women's general view of midwives, midwife duties, professional ethics, media influence and demotivating factors associated with working as a midwife. Although the instrument is valid and reliable, it needs further testing in other studies. Taking the factors reported on by the present study into account in public policy-making could promote better understanding of midwifery and improve its status in the community.

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“…21 With medical advances, greater knowledge about hygiene, and standardized licensure and documented competencies for physicians, mothers in the United States were encouraged to give birth at a hospital. 5,22 New practices and routines included pain management and physicianassisted labor and delivery. Formula feeding was promoted to counteract possible disease and infection.…”

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“…For the majority of women, it is not associated with a medical condition or disease. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Thus, for a well population, birth needs to take place in a context that humanizes care, is safe and comfortable, minimizes interruptions, and promotes the bonding, touch, and grooming that occur naturally between a mother and her infant. Such a context facilitates breastfeeding and has the potential to empower mothers and increase their confidence in their new role.…”

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“…Medical associations such as the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) remain skeptical about the value and safety of planned home births and care by skilled birth attendants, including midwives. 5 Wax and colleagues 17 recently published a meta-analysis of outcomes from planned home births compared to planned hospital births. These investigators concluded that the neonatal mortality rate was significantly greater in planned home births and they attributed this to less medical intervention.…”

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confidence: 99%

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