A literature review on integrated perinatal care
Abstract
Context: The perinatal period is one during which health care services are in high demand. Like other health care sub-sectors, perinatal health care delivery has undergone significant changes in recent years, such as the integrative wave that has swept through the health care industry since the early 1990s.
Purpose: The present study aims at reviewing scholarly work on integrated perinatal care to provide support for policy decision-making.
Results: Researchers interested in integrated perinatal care have, by assessing the effectiveness of individual clinical practices and intervention programs, mainly addressed issues of continuity of care and clinical and professional integration.
Conclusions: Improvements in perinatal health care delivery appear related not to structurally integrated health care delivery systems, but to organizing modalities that aim to support woman-centred care and cooperative clinical practice.
Purpose: The present study aims at reviewing scholarly work on integrated perinatal care to provide support for policy decision-making.
Results: Researchers interested in integrated perinatal care have, by assessing the effectiveness of individual clinical practices and intervention programs, mainly addressed issues of continuity of care and clinical and professional integration.
Conclusions: Improvements in perinatal health care delivery appear related not to structurally integrated health care delivery systems, but to organizing modalities that aim to support woman-centred care and cooperative clinical practice.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.202 | Journal eISSN: 1568-4156
Language: English
Published on: Jul 19, 2007
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
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© 2007 Charo Rodríguez, Catherine des Rivières-Pigeon, published by Ubiquity Press
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