Tag: Maternal

Free Download Maternal Fetal Transmission of Human Viruses and their Influence on Tumorigenesis By György Berencsi III, Maria Takács (auth.), György Berencsi III (eds.)
2012 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 9400742150 | PDF | 5 MB
The human foetus is separated from the maternal blood by the syncytiotrophoblast induced by endogeneous human retrovirus-encoded proteins. This barrier is a highly developed one, which suppors apical-basolateral transport of maternal idiotype and anti-idiotype IgG, IgG-virus complexes. The selective maternal-fetal transport of epitope- and paratope-bearing entities can influence the developping fetal immune system during pregnancy. The bidirectional maternal-fetal transfer of cells are of even more importance during pregnancy. Maternal cells with latent viruses transport viruses without impairment of fetal development. Cells with premaligant and malignant genetic transformation are also transported to the fetus. Fetal and neonatal tumours are initiated by such cells in spite of the antitumour potential of fetal organism. On the contary, the fetal cells repair maternal tissue injouries and survive in the organisms of the recipients for decades. These possess new consequences for the neonatal immunity and organ transplatation surgery.

Free Download Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies By Allan Rosenfield, Caroline J. Min (auth.), John Ehiri (eds.)
2009 | 582 Pages | ISBN: 0387892443 | PDF | 11 MB
Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies Edited by John Ehiri, PhD, MPH, MSc (Econ.)Our current era of globalization, war, and socioeconomic unrest has revealed public health as a worldwide concern and a major frontier for social justice with maternal and child health at its epicenter. Yet, there has been a relative scarcity of textbooks specifically dedicated to this crucial area. Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies addresses this gap by analyzing the range of socioeconomic and environmental factors, health care disparities, politics, policies, and cultural practices that impact the health and safety of mothers, as well as the well-being and optimum development of their children.Individual sections focus on unequal distribution of the world’s resources, politics and power, specific disease concerns, programs, policies and emerging concerns with a focus on what is currently being done, and what needs to be done to improve the health status of women, children, and adolescents. The book’s contributors are some of the world’s most respected experts, carefully selected to represent different global geographic regions and diverse professional disciplines related to maternal and child health from both academic and field practice perspectives.Among the topics in this authoritative volume:The impact of war, globalization, gender inequity, and harmful traditional practices (e.g., female genital mutilation).Specific health concerns, including tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, and malnutrition.Child and adolescent health issues, from abuse and neglect to children in difficult circumstances.Pregnancy-related issues: safety, abortion and post-abortion care, teen pregnancy, and more. Strategies for planning, developing, and maintaining maternal and child health systems in developing countries.The status of global initiatives, such as Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses and the Millennium Development Goals.The status of evidence-based maternal and child health in the developing world.With such a wealth of information on both practical and conceptual levels, Maternaland Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies is as relevant to students and researchers in the field as it is to policy makers and those working for global health and development organizations. Each chapter features discussion questions and learning objectives, making this book an excellent stand-alone text for courses in global health in general and global maternal and child health in particular.

Free Download Maternal Obesity By M. W. Gillman, L. Poston
2012 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1107003962 | PDF | 4 MB
Obesity incidence continues to grow in both the developed and developing world. More than 300 million women are clinically obese and this has profound effects on health during pregnancy and the wellbeing of the unborn child. In the face of such a challenging pandemic, this book reviews the latest research, providing up-to-date advice on clinical management. Obesity and Pregnancy addresses the adverse effects of obesity among women of childbearing age, including infertility, medical complications, problems in labor and adverse birth outcomes and reviews evidence that the obese mother’s in utero environment has long-lasting influences on the health of the developing child. Chapters cover basic, clinical and population perspectives, providing valuable information from mechanistic insight through to public health and policy implications. Invaluable for obstetricians, gynecologists, pediatricians, family practitioners, endocrinologists, midwives and dieticians, as well as researchers and public health policy makers seeking to tackle the burden of maternal obesity-related illness.

Free Download Geneva Cobb Moore, Andrew Billingsley, "Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women’s Literature: From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1611177480 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 0.8 mb
An in-depth examination of Black women’s experiences as portrayed in literature throughout American history

Free Download ATI NURSING, "RN Maternal Newborn Nursing Edition 11.0"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1565335996 | PDF | pages: 233 | 4.6 mb

Free Download Jay Satia, "Innovations in Maternal Health: Case Studies from India"
English | ISBN: 8132113101 | 2013 | 360 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Innovations in Maternal Health presents a compilation of twenty-three innovations from the area of Maternal and Newborn Health. These innovations have been written in the case-study style for teaching, which will be beneficial for capacity building initiatives for health-care professionals. These descriptive cases cover innovative programmes, initiatives and technologies implemented in India. Each case is complemented by a documentary film provided in the accompanying DVD.

Free Download 21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031393503 | 344 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.3 MB
Motherhood has long been depicted in reductive or limited terms. At once valorized and configured as the ultimate end-goal for socially condoned femininity, maternity is also highly mediated and scrutinized. This has resulted in a representational tradition that persists in imagining maternal subjects in rigid binary terms, pitting good mothers against bad. Largely in response to this repressive schema, recent years have marked the emergence of a diverse range of visual and literary texts about motherhood. While such texts vary in style, genre and form, this book argues that they are unified in their efforts to publicize embodied maternal experience and foreground maternal ambivalence, a concept that is best understood as a mother’s capacity to simultaneously love and hate her child. Although maternal ambivalence has become an increasingly popular topic of study with maternal scholars, its articulation within contemporary representations and narratives has yet to be adequately theorized and addressed, and this book aims to fill this gap.