AN ALTERNATIVE TO UNATTENDED DELIVERY - A TRAINING-PROGRAM FOR VILLAGE MIDWIVES IN PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA

被引：12

作者：

ALTO, WA ^{[1
]}

ALBU, RE ^{[1
]}

IRABO, G ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] NIPA HLTH CTR,NIPA,PAPUA N GUINEA

来源：

SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE | 1991年 / 32卷 / 05期

关键词：

VILLAGE MIDWIFE TRAINING; TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT; PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA;

D O I：

10.1016/0277-9536(91)90296-O

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Certain linguistic groups in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea are unique in that there is no cultural role for a traditional birth attendant and, therefore, women deliver alone unattended. A programme to train village women as midwives was begun at Nipa Health Centre in 1981 and later expanded to a province-wide scope in 1986. Thirty-two Angal Heneng village midwives were trained during the period 1981-1989. Women of this language group have traditionally given birth alone. By 1989 the Angal Heneng village midwives had supervised 623 deliveries while 24 of them were still practicing. Well accepted in the community, they attended 11% of all births in 1989. Their efforts contributed to infant and perinatal mortality rates that were lower among the Angal Heneng than those of the neighbouring language group. © 1991.

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