Midwifery

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The midwifery is a new branch of medical care research . She deals with the work of professional midwives in obstetrics . Research fields are e.g. B. medical interventions in the normal, physiological process of childbirth, effectiveness and usefulness of midwifery, and the social assessment of childbirth. As with other applied health sciences , maintaining the health of patients, or mother and child, is the focus of interest.

The midwifery science has a primarily professional-political origin: Emerging from the midwifery , it emphasizes the academization and professionalization of this profession desired by the actors , similar to what has already happened in nursing. A "midwife-oriented, women-centered care paradigm" (Bohle 2004) is to be established. While the training of midwives was previously carried out in technical schools, the Hannover Medical School established a master’s course in midwifery for the first time in 2011 . Bachelor courses can be obtained at some universities of applied sciences (e.g. Bachelor of Science in Midwifery at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences ). In Austria there are B. a dedicated department with a bachelor's degree at the private University of Applied Sciences Krems . The practical training required by the professional laws cannot be obtained at the universities.

In Germany, women are legally entitled to midwifery help during pregnancy, childbirth, childbed and breastfeeding at the expense of health insurance. The task of the research will be to prove the effectiveness and the usefulness of the self-responsible (doctor and nursing-independent) work of midwives according to the criteria of medical evidence , not only in the actual birth, but also in its preparation and in the emotional and socially difficult first phase of young parents, such as promoting breastfeeding . The German Society for Midwifery Science was founded as a specialist society in 2008 .

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Bohle S: Frau Magister instead of sister ... Österreichische Hebammenzeitung 2/04 ( Memento from June 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Mechthild Gross: First habilitation midwife in Germany. Dtsch Arztebl 2011; 108 (5): A-225 / B-179 / C-179
  5. ^ Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences: Midwifery B.Sc. , accessed January 2, 2011.
  6. ^ Cheap M: Academisation of the health professions: midwife with a bachelor's degree. Frankfurter Rundschau October 19, 2010

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