In search of equity and dignity in maternity care: Canada in comparative perspective

Valuing Care Work: Comparative Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-64

  Benoit, Cecilia ^a   Wrede, Sirpa ^b   Einarsdóttir, Þorgerdur ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966990667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (65)

1. Armstrong P., H. Armstrong, I. Bourgeault, J. Choiniere, J. Lexchin, & E. Mykhalovskiy. (2003). Market principles, business practices and health care. International Journal of Canadian Studies 28: 13-38.
2. Aronson, J., & S. Sammon. (2000). Practice amid social service cuts and restructuring: Working with the contradictions of small victories. Canadian Social Work Review 17: 167.
3. Association of Icelandic Midwives. (2008). Retrieved 31 July 2008 from http://www.ljosmodir.is/Felag/.
4. Benoit, C., & A. Heitlinger. (1998). Women's health care work in comparative perspective. Social Science and Medicine 47: 1101-11.
5. Benoit, C., & L. Shumka. (2009). Gendering the Health Determinants Framework: Why Girls’ and Women's Health Matters-A Primer on Women's Health. MSFHR. Vancouver: Women's Health Research Network.
6. Benoit, C., S. Wrede, I. Bourgeault, J. Sandall, E. Van Teijlingen, R. DeVries. (2005). Understanding the social organisation of maternity care systems. Sociology of Health and Illness 27: 722-37.
7. Benoit, C., R. Westfall, A. Treloar, R. Phillips, & M. Jansson. (2007). Social factors linked with postpartum depression. Journal of Mental Health16: 719-30.
8. Bezanson, K., & M. Luxton. (Eds.). (2006). Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neoliberalism. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.
9. Bjarnadóttir, R. (2006). No correlation between rates of caesarean section and perinatal mortality in Iceland? Laeknabladid (Icelandic Medical Journal) 91: 191-5.
10. Bjarnadóttir, R.I., G. Gardarsdóttir, A. Smárason, & G. Pálsson. (2006). Faedingarskráningunni (Icelandic Birth Registration). Kvennadeild og Barnaspítali Hringsins. Landspítali-Háskólasjúkrahús (Landspitali University Hospital).
11. Bourgeault, I., C. Benoit, & R. Davis-Floyd. (Eds.). (2004). Reconceiving Midwifery. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.
12. Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). (2004). Giving Birth in Canada: A Regional Profile. Ottawa: Author.
13. Canadian Institute for Health Information. (2005). Health Care in Canada. Ottawa: Author.
14. Canadian Institute for Health Information. (2007). Giving Birth in Canada: Regional Trends from 2001-2002 to 2005-2006. Ottawa: Author.
15. Canadian Institute for Health Information. (2008). Health Indicators. Ottawa: Author.
16. Canadian Perinatal Service System. (2003). Canadian Perinatal Health Report. Ottawa: Health Canada.
17. Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System. (2000). Perinatal Health Indicators for Canada. Ottawa: Health Canada.
18. Conrad, P., & V. Leiter. (2004). Medicalization, markets and consumers. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45: 158-76.
19. Delvaux, T. (1999). Buekens and the Study Group on Barriers and Incentives to Prenatal Care in Europe: Disparity in prenatal care in Europe. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology 83: 185-90.
20. Denton, M., I. Zeytinoglu, & S. Davies. (2002a). Working in clients’ homes: The impact on the mental health and well-being of visiting home care workers. Home Health Care Service Quarterly 21: 1-27.
21. Denton, M., I. Zeytinoglu, S. Davies, & J. Lian. (2002b). Job stress and job dissatisfaction of home care workers in the context of health care restructuring. International Journal of Health Services 32: 327-57.
22. DeVries, R., C. Benoit, E. Van Teijlingen, & S. Wrede. (Eds.). (2001). Birth by Design. London: Routledge.
23. Directorate of Health (2009). Statistics on Birth 2007. Retrieved 5 Sept. 2009 from http://landlaeknir.is/lisalib/getfile.aspx?itemid=3845.
24. Esmail, N., & M. Walker. (2005). How Good Is Canadian Health Care? 2005 Report. Vancouver: Fraser Institute.
25. Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. (2007). Seksuaali-ja lisääntymis-terveyden edistäminen. Toimintaohjelma 2007-2011. Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Programme 2007-2011. Helsinki: Author.
26. Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. (2008). The New Health Care Act. Memorandum of the Working Group Preparing the Health Care Act. Helsinki.
27. Gissler, M., J. Merilainen, E. Vuori, & E. Hemminki. (2003). Register-based monitoring shows decreasing socioeconomic differences in Finnish perinatal health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 57: 433-9.
28. Gottfredsdóttir, H. (2006). Breyttar áherslur í medgonguvernd í ljósi nyrra adferda til fósturgreiningar og skimunar (Changes in maternal care in the light of new methods for prenatal screening). In H. Jónsdóttir, ed., Frá innsaei til inngripa: Thekkingarthroun í hjúkrunar-og ljósmódurfraedi, 145-63. Reykjavík: Hid íslenska Bókmenntfélag.
29. Gottfredsdóttir, H. (2009). Fetal Screening: Prospective Parents and Decisions Concerning Nuchal Translucency Screening. Reykjavik: University of Iceland, Faculty of Nursing.
30. Gottfredsdóttir, H., S. Karlsdottir, & I. Lausnarsteinar. (2009). Ljosmodurfraedi og Ljosmodurlist: Reykjavik, Hid islenska bokmenntafelag. Reykjavik: Ljosmaedrafelag Islands.
31. Halldorsson, M. (2003). Health Care Systems in Transition: Iceland. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Copenhagen: WHO.
32. Harvey, S., D. Rach, M. Stainston, J. Jarrell, & R. Brant. (2002). Evaluation of satisfaction with midwifery care. Midwifery 18: 260-7.
33. Health Service Act No. 40 (Log um heilbrigdisthjónustu). (2007). Reykjavík: Icelandic Ministry of Health.
34. Henriksson, L., S. Wrede, & V. Burau. (2006). Understanding professional projects in welfare service work. Gender, Work and Organization 14: 174-92.
35. Icelandic Birth Registration. (2005). Retrieved 10 Aug. 2008 from http://www4.landspitali.is/lsh_ytri.nsf/pages/kven_0114/$file/faedingarskraningarskyrsla_2006.pdf.
36. Jónsdóttir, G., R.I. Bjarnadóttir, R.T. Geirsson, & A.K. Smárason. (2006). No correlation between rates of caesarean section and perinatal mortality in Iceland? Laeknabladid (Icelandic Medical Journal) 92: 191-5.
37. Kojo-Austin, H., M. Malin, & E. Hemminki. (2003). Women's satisfaction with maternity health care services in Finland. Social Science and Medicine37: 633-8.
38. Kristjánsdóttir, H., & Allt vegna fóstursins. (2004). Afleidingar ómskodunar (All for the unborn child: Consequences of screening). In Ó.P Jónsson & A. Ó. Jónsdóttir, eds., Sjúkdômsvaeding (Médicalisation). Reykjavík: Fraedslunet Sudurlands, Sidfraedistofnun, Háskólatgáfan.
39. Laine, M., G. Wickstrom, J. Pentti, M. Elovainio, A. Kaarlela-Tuomaala, & K. Lindström. (2006). Työolot ja hyvinvointi sosiaali-ja terveysalalla 2005 (Working Conditions and Well-Being in Social and Health Care 2005). Helsinki: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. Law on the Changes of the Public Health Act. (Laki kansanterveyslain muuttamisesta). (2005).
40. Mackintosh, M., & M. Koivusalo. (2005). Commercialisation of Health Care. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
41. McDaniel, S.A. (2002). Women's changing relations to the state and citizenship: Caring and intergenerational relations in globalizing Western democracies. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 39(2): 125-50.
42. Naylor, N. (1986). Private Practice, Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance, 1911-1966. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.
43. Odette, M. (2003). The Canada Health and Social Transfer: Operation and possible repercussions on the health care sector. Current Issue Review 95-2E. Ottawa: Parliamentary Research Branch, Library of Parliament.
44. Ólafsdóttir, Óa. (1995). Breytingar og throun i nami i ljosmodurfraedi (Changes and development in the education of midwifery). Ljôsmaedrabladid (Journal of Midwives) 73: 14-17, 20-9.
45. Olsen, G. (2002). The Politics of the Welfare State: Canada, Sweden and the U.S. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
46. O’Neil, J., & P. Kaufert. (1996). The politics of obstetric care: The Inuit experience. In W. Mitchinson, P. Bourne, A. Prentice, G. Cuthbert Brandt, B. Light, & N. Black, eds., Canadian Women: A Reader, 416-29. Toronto: Harcourt Brace.
47. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (2007). OECD Health Data 2007. Retrieved 7 Oct. 2007 from http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,3343, en_2649_37407_2085200_1_1_1_37407,00.html.
48. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2008a). OECD Health Data. Geneva: Author.
49. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2008b). OECD Health Data 2008. Frequently Requested Data. Infant Mortality Rate. Retrieved 14 Aug. 2008 from http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/35/19/35027658.xls.
50. Peterson, W., J. Medves, B. Davies, & I. Graham. (2007). Multidisciplinary collaborative maternity care in Canada: Easier said than done. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 29: 880-6.
51. Raatikainen, K., N. Heiskanen, P. Verkasalo, & S. Heinonen. (2005). Good outcome of teenage pregnancies in high-quality maternity care. European Journal of Public Health 16: 157-61.
52. Regulation on Health Care Centres, No. 787 (Reglugerd um heilsugaeslustodvar). (2007). Reykjavík: Icelandic Ministry of Health.
53. Sen, A. (2002). Health: Perception versus observation. British Medical Journal324: 860-1.
54. Sigurdsson, J.A. (2003). The GP's role in maternity care. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Care 21: 65.
55. Sigurgeirsdóttir, S. (2006). Health Policy and Hospital Mergers: How the Impossible Became Possible. Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan.
56. STAKES. (2008). Finnish Birth Register data. Retrieved 5 Aug. 2008 from http://www.stakes.fi/FI/Tilastot/Aiheittain/Lisaantyminen/synnyttajat/index.htm.
57. Statistics Iceland. (2008). Wages, Income and Labour Market. Statistical Series. (11 April). Retrieved 10 Aug. 2008 from http://www.hagstofa.is/lisalib/getfile.aspx?ItemID=8012.
58. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). (2008). Human Development Programme Report, 2007/2008. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
59. Van Teijlingen, E. (2005). A critical analysis of the medical model as used in the study of pregnancy and childbirth. Sociol Research Online 10(2). Retrieved on 2 July 2006 from http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/2/teijlingen.html.
60. Vilhjálmsson, R. (2007). Íslenska heilbrigdiskerfid á krossgötum. In G.T. Jóhannesson, (ed.), Rannsóknir í felagsvísindum, vol. VIII, 197-206. Reykjavík: Félagsvísindastofnun.
61. Wen, S.W., L.S. Mery, M. Kramer, V. Jimenez, K. Trouton, P. Herbert, & B. Chalmers. (1999). Attitudes of Canadian women toward birthing centres and midwifery care for childbirth. Canadian Medical Association Journal 161: 708-9.
62. Whitehead, M., G. Dahlgren, & D. McIntyre. (2007). Putting equity centre stage: Challenging evidence-free reforms. International Journal of Health Services 27: 353-61.
63. Wrede, S. (2001). Decentering Care for Mothers. Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press.
64. Wrede, S., C. Benoit, & J. Sandall. (2001). The state and birth/the state of birth: Maternal health policy in three countries. In R. DeVries, C. Benoit, E. Van Teijlinge, S. Wrede, eds., Birth by Design, 28-50. London: Routledge.
65. Wrede, S., C. Benoit, I. Bourgeault, E. Van Teijlingen, J. Sandall, & R. DeVries. (2006). Decentred comparative research. Social Science and Medicine63: 2986-97.