Midwifery
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to address the social aspects of pregnancy and the views of pregnant women regarding prenatal assistance in Brazil. ⋯ the findings reveal that communication between pregnant women and health-care professionals has been ineffective and that prenatal care has not been effective for the group interviewed--features that are likely to be found among other low- to middle-income groups living elsewhere in Brazil.
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to explore the challenges and barriers faced by Palestinian maternal health-care providers (HCPs) to the provision of quality maternal health-care services through a case study of a Palestinian public referral hospital in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. ⋯ Palestinian midwives need to increase their knowledge and use evidence-based practices during childbirth. They need to unite and create their own circle of professional support in the form of a Palestinian midwifery professional body.