Review of postnatal health care

Key informant interviews Two sampling strategies were used to select key informants.

For most of our outcomes only one or two studies provided dataand overall results were inconsistent. We included 12 randomised trials with data for more than 11, women. The original survey was developed by the research team, incorporating evidence from the literature and suggestions from the reference group established for the public review.

Given that one third of women in Victoria receive postnatal care in a private hospital we undertook a similar statewide review of private postnatal care PinC Private.

The Role of the MHTF Historically, the global maternal health community has largely focused on access to high quality maternity care during pregnancy, labor and delivery. However, health systems challenges such shortages within the healthcare workforce and make implementation difficult, and many facilities do not have the supplies they need to deliver FANC appropriately.

The reference group brought together a range of people with relevant backgrounds and experience in postnatal care to contribute ideas and advice to the research team at all stages. Those seeking services should be deeply involved in how, where, when and by whom services are provided.

Further well designed RCTs evaluating this complex intervention will be required to formulate the optimal package.

Postnatal health services

We used an analytical framework developed by WHO in the late s 20 that gives equal weight to the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of care AAAQ. The systematic extraction of data creates a thematic network which illustrates the relationship between the organising themes and global themes. Some of the models of care described in our case studies are strongly focused on strengthening the healthcare workforce. You can communicate some of this information by active demonstration, for example, showing the new mothers how to hold or lift a baby, so that they can see what to do, and giving them opportunities to ask questions and clarify any problems. In all but two of the included studies, postnatal care at home was delivered by healthcare professionals. Initially five private hospitals three metropolitan and two regional were randomly selected and three agreed to participate in the key informant interviews. Coming from women is a strong desire to have [their baby in the] nursery overnight so that they can get some sleep KI, Clinical midwife, Metropolitan, Download