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Alternative model for low risk obstetric care in Third World rural and peri‐urban areas
Author(s) -
Hyppolito S.B.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(92)90034-g
Subject(s) - medicine , breastfeeding , prenatal care , nursing , family medicine , health care , medical emergency , pediatrics , population , environmental health , economics , economic growth
The Program for Integrated Health Care (PROAIS) has devised ways and means of reaching the traditional birth attendant, here called empiric midwife and training her to offer adequate, hygienic care at delivery for her low‐risk patients. She is taught to recognize the high‐risk patient and to send her to the weekly prenatal clinics staffed by physicians and registered nurses. The empiric midwife can also be taught prenatal care, detection of cervical and breast cancer, family planning, and the importance of breastfeeding. These women are considered colleagues by their formal medical counterparts and are treated as such. More recently some of the more capable have been placed on County Health Department payrolls.