Rachel Arnold, Edwin Van Teijlingen, Kath Ryan, And Immy Holloway
Rachel Arnold, PhD, is a nurse/midwife with over 16 years experience of maternity services in the UK. She also worked for more than a decade providing health care and supporting health care providers in emergency settings such as South Sudan, Rwanda, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her PhD was a qualitative ethnography examining the culture of care in a Kabul maternity hospital. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in maternity organization and culture with Bournemouth University in the UK.
Edwin van Teijlingen, PhD, is a sociologist and Professor of Reproductive Health Research at Bournemouth University in the UK.He has conducted over two decades of research into health care and health services in Europe and South Asia.He has published widely on important aspects of health promotion, midwifery and health services research.He has edited ten books and published more than 260 academic papers. He has successfully supervised over 25 PhD students to completion.Edwin is Visiting Professor at two higher education institutions in Nepal.
Kath Ryan, PhD, Professor emerita, is a social pharmacist with international experience in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods health research and the behavioural sciences gained at top universities in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia. Her research interests include expanding roles for pharmacists in general practice, people's experiences of using medicines and living pharmaceutical lives and infant feeding.She is currently supporting the redevelopment of undergraduate pharmacy curricula in Kenya.
Immy Holloway, PhD, Professor emerita from the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, at Bournemouth University in the UK, is a medical sociologist.She has extensive experience in qualitative research, particularly patient/client and professional perspectives on health and illness. She is an expert in applying qualitative methods to practical health topics and has published a wide-range of textbooks in the field of qualitative health research.
Edwin van Teijlingen, PhD, is a sociologist and Professor of Reproductive Health Research at Bournemouth University in the UK.He has conducted over two decades of research into health care and health services in Europe and South Asia.He has published widely on important aspects of health promotion, midwifery and health services research.He has edited ten books and published more than 260 academic papers. He has successfully supervised over 25 PhD students to completion.Edwin is Visiting Professor at two higher education institutions in Nepal.
Kath Ryan, PhD, Professor emerita, is a social pharmacist with international experience in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods health research and the behavioural sciences gained at top universities in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia. Her research interests include expanding roles for pharmacists in general practice, people's experiences of using medicines and living pharmaceutical lives and infant feeding.She is currently supporting the redevelopment of undergraduate pharmacy curricula in Kenya.
Immy Holloway, PhD, Professor emerita from the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, at Bournemouth University in the UK, is a medical sociologist.She has extensive experience in qualitative research, particularly patient/client and professional perspectives on health and illness. She is an expert in applying qualitative methods to practical health topics and has published a wide-range of textbooks in the field of qualitative health research.
Villains or victims? The role of maternity staff in decreasing or enhancing respectful care
Afghanistan has one of the highest rates in the world of maternal mortality despite nearly two decades of effort to train more skilled providers and make maternity care more accessible. One contributing factor to this may be the quality and respectfulness of care provided. In this blog post, the authors of a newly published qualitative study in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth discuss the contributions of healthcare providers to respectful maternity care and positive outcomes in light of narratives that depict them as either the ‘villains’ or the ‘victims’ of the system.
The challenge of high-quality respectful care
Worldwide, many childbearing women have little opportunity to make autonomous childbirth decisions themselves and experience poor care. This relates to the general status of women in society, and more specifically to the failure of maternity services to produce optimal and dignified care for all. The latter is an issue reported in high-income countries as well as low- and middle-income countries, including Afghanistan.
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