Today's army of polio vaccinators can become the community health workers of tomorrow supporting routine childhood immunizations, safe childbirth, malaria control, and other crucial public health measures that can save literally millions of lives per year.
Although pain management is the best short-term solution to help women cope with childbirth, personal control provides a long-term benefit [ 30].
Third, we tested whether the theoretically-derived cognitive variables still significantly predict PTSD symptom levels when the already established predictors of PTSD following childbirth are controlled for.
Overall, survivors experienced a longer time to childbirth than controls (HR 0.92, 95% CI 0.87-0.98), however this was limited to survivors with prediagnosis childbirth (HR 0.76, 95% CI 0.66-0.86).
The message had a particular resonance in the country where the Nazi party also tried to control childbirth, encouraging people considered pure-blood Germans to breed, while going as far as sterilising people from other groups.
Women with obstetric fistula more commonly experienced leg pain and walking difficulties in the period after the injuring childbirth than the control group experienced after their childbirth.
Two studies found that such behaviours also made women feel like 'passive objects' during childbirth, with no control or engagement in the experience [ 34, 83].
This book contained information on many issues related to women's health and sexuality, including birth control, childbirth, sexual health, sexual orientation, and gender identity [ 6].
Sexual relations after childbirth involved the control of sexuality for ensuring family health and avoiding the social implications of non-adherence to sexual abstinence norms.
As Table 1 shows, this was in particular due to an increase in the length of the early parities, suggesting that spacing was increasingly used as a strategy to control childbirth, although stopping altogether (rather than delaying) was the main cause of Dutch fertility decline (Van Poppel et al. 2012).
