Creating a Culture of Consumer Engagement in Maternity Care

In this column, the author reprises recent selections from the Lamaze International research blog, Science & Sensibility. Each selection discusses opportunities to establish a culture of consumer engagement in maternity care. The author demonstrates how improving health literacy, ensuring multi-...

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Published in:The Journal of perinatal education 2010-01, Vol.19 (2), p.50-54
Main Author: Romano, Amy M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advanced Practice
Age
Births
Childbirth & labor
Consumers
Critical Care, Acute Care, and Emergency
Decision making
Families & family life
Hospitals
Literacy
Maternal & child health
Maternal child nursing
Midwifery
Mothers
Nursing
Nursing Education
Obstetrics
Pediatrics and Neonatal
Perinatal Exchange
Prenatal education
Quality
Researchers
Studies
Television programs
Womens health
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Summary:In this column, the author reprises recent selections from the Lamaze International research blog, Science & Sensibility. Each selection discusses opportunities to establish a culture of consumer engagement in maternity care. The author demonstrates how improving health literacy, ensuring multi-stakeholder participation in the development of clinical guidelines, and supporting comparative effectiveness research of woman- and family-centered care practices may improve maternity care.
ISSN:1058-1243
1548-8519
DOI:10.1624/105812410X495550