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Maternity Care: Building Relationships Really Does Save Lives


FutureLearn

Summary

Price
Free
Study method
Online
Duration
3 weeks · Self-paced
Qualification
No formal qualification

Overview

Learn how quality relationships between mothers, midwives and other health professionals transform maternity care and save lives.

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Description

Build relationships in maternity care and save lives

Research unequivocally shows that providing a woman with the same midwife before, during and after birth, results in less preterm birth, fetal death and other complications.

This course explains why we need relationship-based care in maternity services. You’ll discover how to create successful relationships, and how this produces better outcomes for the mother, baby and midwife.

You’ll learn about organisational healthcare models, and what you and your local community can do to contribute to the transformation of maternity care globally.

What will you achieve?

Summarise the key problems in the current provision of maternity care.

Explain what a relationship framework for maternity services is.

Justify why a relationship framework for maternity services can produce better outcomes for mother, baby, maternity care providers, and society.

Describe the organisational model that can facilitate relationship-based care for maternity services.

Develop a plan for action you or your community could implement to begin to affect change in this area.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for anyone interested in improving maternity care, including midwives, doctors, other health professionals, planners and policy makers, and consumers of maternity care (parents).

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