Cross national analysis of maternal health policy
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Professor Jane Sandall in the School of Nursing and Midwifery was invited to provide a keynote paper on Maternal Health Systems and advocacy for change to an international meeting of the Choices and Challenges in Changing Childbirth Regional Research Network hosted in the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut in Lebanon (20 to 24 Jan 2008).
Professor Sandall presented a keynote paper entitled Deciding who cares: a cross-national analysis of the politics of maternal health policy which compared the formation of maternal health policy from an international comparative perspective. The findings were drawn from work by the Birth, Culture and Society Group, an international grouping of social and political scientists in Canada, UK, Finland and USA . More details can be found in the following publications.
Sandall J, Benoit C, Wrede S. Murray SF, van Teijlingen ER, Westfall R. (in press) The reconfiguration of professional relations with clients: social service professionalism or market expert?, Current Sociology.
Wrede S, Benoit C, Bourgeault I, van Teijlingen E, Sandall J, de Vries R. (2006) Decentred comparative research: context sensitive analysis of maternal health care, Social Science and Medicine, 63 (11): 2986–97.
Benoit C, Wrede S, Bourgeault I, Sandall J, de Vries R, van Teijlingen ER. (2005) Understanding the social organisation of maternity care systems: Midwifery as a touchstone, Sociology of Health and Illness 27(6): 722-37.
The Choices and Challenges in Changing Childbirth research program which is supported by the Wellcome Trust is an established regional network cumulating scientific evidence of childbirth practices in the Middle East region and identifying areas amenable for change. The program of research aims ultimately to render maternity care safer for women and their newborns. The regional network involves collaborative activities between researchers from Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. Researchers involved in the network work in collaboration with policymakers, professional associations, health care providers and women.
Sandall J, Benoit C, Wrede S. Murray SF, van Teijlingen ER, Westfall R. (in press) The reconfiguration of professional relations with clients: social service professionalism or market expert?, Current Sociology.
Wrede S, Benoit C, Bourgeault I, van Teijlingen E, Sandall J, de Vries R. (2006) Decentred comparative research: context sensitive analysis of maternal health care, Social Science and Medicine, 63 (11): 2986–97.
Benoit C, Wrede S, Bourgeault I, Sandall J, de Vries R, van Teijlingen ER. (2005) Understanding the social organisation of maternity care systems: Midwifery as a touchstone, Sociology of Health and Illness 27(6): 722-37.
The Choices and Challenges in Changing Childbirth research program which is supported by the Wellcome Trust is an established regional network cumulating scientific evidence of childbirth practices in the Middle East region and identifying areas amenable for change. The program of research aims ultimately to render maternity care safer for women and their newborns. The regional network involves collaborative activities between researchers from Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. Researchers involved in the network work in collaboration with policymakers, professional associations, health care providers and women.