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| By Paula Tibandebage, Tausi Kida, Maureen Mackintosh and Joyce Ikingura | | |||||||||||||||||||||||
To what extent is the disempowerment of nurses/nurse midwives and other maternal health-care professionals an important factor contributing to poor performance in the provision of maternal health care, and therefore a contributory factor in poor maternal health outcomes? This paper addresses this question by using a systematic analysis of part of a data set from a research project Ethics, payments, and maternal survival. Drawing on concepts of empowerment from the nursing literature, the authors analyse qualitative data from interviews with staff in two hospitals and two health centres, and with women in sampled households who had sought maternal health care in the five years preceding the fieldwork in a single urban district in Tanzania. To read a full report please click here
(Paper 2 from the Ethics, Payments and Maternal Survival Project) What is ethical maternal health care? This paper describes and reflects upon the unprompted responses to this question by women who were pregnant and/or had given birth, and by maternal health care staff, in four districts of Tanzania. The paper draws on data from a research project on Ethics, Payments and Maternal Survival. In analysing the qualitative data, the authors draw on literature from medical and nursing ethics, from the feminist and philosophical literature on relational ethics and the role of emotions in ethics. They find that the predominant conceptions of ethical care among both the women and maternal health care staff interviewed are relational, and that there is a strong shared view between the two groups of respondents that contextual issues such as shortages of medical supplies and skilled staff are of serious ethical concern. To read a full report please click here To request for a hard copy kindly email REPOA’s Communications Officer To visit REPOA’s library catalogue click here REPOA Resource Centre is open and free to the Public from Monday to Friday, 1000 to 1300, and 1400 to 1700. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hannah Mwandoloma
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