Enacting Homebirth Bodies: Midwifery Techniques in Germany

Skeide, Annekatrin

doi:10.1007/s11013-018-9613-8

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“…This system works in most of the countries in the EU. 4 The lowest count of home births is found in Poland. There are only registered about 120 home births a year.…”

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Comparison of Frequency of Home Births in the Member States of the EU Between 2015 and 2019

Galková

Böhm

Hon

et al. 2022

Global Pediatric Health

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Introduction. The disagreement of the general public’s views on home births is practically identical for the professional public and specialists also. The core of the problem lies in the disunity between individual countries of the European Union—complete prohibition under the risk of committing a crime on one side and standard procedure perceived as something completely common on the other side. Methods. The authors focused on the prevalence of home births in individual EU countries, together with the proportion of neonatological mortality compared to the number of live births, which are data that, unlike home births, are mandatory in each EU Member State. Data on home births were obtained from available official and verified sources such as the Ministry of Health, reviews published by the WHO, or published peer-reviewed scientific and professional works. Secondary data were procured via Web of Science, Scopus, or PubMed. Results. The aim of the study was to trace the documented numbers of home births in the individual states of the European Union in the years 2015 to 2019, to analyze them with data on live births together and with data on infant mortality. A comparative analysis of the compiled data can be used to conclude which countries have the highest domestic birth rates and how the birth rate is manifested in these countries. Based on the analysis of available data, it can be determined that the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany have the highest share of domestic births. The link between home births and increased neonatal mortality has not been established. Eastern Europe countries have the highest neonatal mortality, namely Romania (1.19%) and Malta (0.63%). Conclusion. The Netherlands has the highest domestic birth rate per 100 000 inhabitants with a 5-year average of 161 922 (overall average of all live births 993.40), but is also in 11th place in neonatal mortality, together with Denmark and Belgium, which have 0.35% neonatal neonatal mortality. The country with the lowest neonatal mortality of 0.19% is Slovenia. The total average of all children born in 5 years (915 live births) is 1.422. When monitoring the number of domestic births in other countries in the years 2015 to 2019, an increasing tendency of this trend is observed.

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“…This system works in most of the countries in the EU. 4 The lowest count of home births is found in Poland. There are only registered about 120 home births a year.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of Frequency of Home Births in the Member States of the EU Between 2015 and 2019

Galková

Böhm

Hon

et al. 2022

Global Pediatric Health

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“…Nurse aids are constantly in the residents’ intimate space—not only their bodies, but also their private rooms filled with their belongings and memories of past times—and thus become acquainted with their habits and care needs (Buse et al, 2018 ). Moreover, residents and health‐care practitioners together build up routines over a longer period of time (Meldgaard Hansen, 2016 ; Skeide, 2019 ). Through this intimate work, nurse aids develop a ‘bodily knowing’ that is crucial for signalling (small) changes.…”

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Triage as an infrastructure of care: The intimate work of redistributing medical care in nursing homes

Pijkeren

Bal

2021

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…We may find alternative understandings of health where body weight is a concern from local, cultural notions of health and wellbeing (Yates-Doerr, 2015) or in movements framed in direct resistance to the common problematization of body weight, such as Fat activism and body positivity (Rothblum et al, 2009). Inspired by feminist STS analyses of multiplicity in health care (Driessen & Ibáñez Martín, 2019;Mol, 2002;Skeide, 2019;Vogel, 2016), I argue that promising alternatives may also be derived from within the policy practices that concern themselves with obesity.…”

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Enacting community health: Obesity prevention policies as situated caring

Vogel

2021

The Sociological Review

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Drawing on Critical Policy Studies and feminist STS, this article conceptualizes obesity prevention activities as ongoing and precarious practices of relating – rather than as means for ‘getting results’ or vehicles through which normative discourses are instilled. It focuses on ‘community approaches’ within public health, whose aim is to stimulate healthy initiatives from what policy makers term ‘bottom-up’, emerging from the situations, concerns and abilities within neighbourhoods. Drawing on ethnographic research on the ‘Amsterdam Healthy Weight Programme’, I demonstrate that different practices of relating enact particular versions of health and community. I warn that reliance on statistics-based problem definitions, dietary advice and professional hierarchies preconfigures health promotion as a matter of ‘reaching out’ to particular ‘problem populations’ defined around class and ethnicity. I show, however, that community approaches may also foster spaces for ‘situated caring’, where health emerges in the negotiation of heterogeneous goods, including neighbourhood revival, togetherness and fun. Situated caring has effects that cannot be captured by obesity prevalence statistics. The study of health promotion policies as practices of relating highlights that policy is not a monolithic structure of plans and commitments but is continuously done and redone. The article, then, introduces a new evaluative field that critically articulates the diverse ways in which ideals such as engagement and health are enacted in practices.

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Enacting Homebirth Bodies: Midwifery Techniques in Germany

Cited by 36 publications

References 36 publications

Comparison of Frequency of Home Births in the Member States of the EU Between 2015 and 2019

Comparison of Frequency of Home Births in the Member States of the EU Between 2015 and 2019

Triage as an infrastructure of care: The intimate work of redistributing medical care in nursing homes

Enacting community health: Obesity prevention policies as situated caring

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