Tsui Ka Chun, Jamie. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2010-2011, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 88). / Chapter 00 --- Thesis Statement / Chapter 01 --- Inspirations / Chapter 02 --- Categorization of Infill Structure / Chapter 03 --- Study from 'Flexible Housing' / Chapter 04 --- Strategy - from Structure to Spatial Flexibility / Chapter 05 --- Program & Site Selection / Chapter 06 --- Development of Structural Strategy / Chapter 07 --- Design Exploration / Chapter 08 --- Design Outcome / Chapter 09 --- Special Study / Chapter 10 --- Essay & Conclusion / Chapter 11 --- Reference/Bibliography / Chapter 12 --- Appendix

Maternal health care services are one of the health interventions to reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. The health of mothers of childbearing age and of the unborn babies is influenced by many factors some of which include the availability and accessibility of health services for pregnant women. Low quality of health services being provided, and limited access to health facilities is correlated with increases maternal morbidity and mortality. This situation is caused by long distances between facilities as well as the people's own beliefs in traditional practices. This study was about the assessment of the women's knowledge on benefits of delivery in a hospital, the barriers to delivery services, and the perception of the delivery services rendered in the maternity ward of Okakarara hospital.

Maternal health care services are one of the health interventions to reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. The health of mothers of childbearing age and of the unborn babies is influenced by many factors some of which include the availability and accessibility of health services for pregnant women. Low quality of health services being provided, and limited access to health facilities is correlated with increases maternal morbidity and mortality. This situation is caused by long distances between facilities as well as the people's own beliefs in traditional practices. This study was about the assessment of the women's knowledge on benefits of delivery in a hospital, the barriers to delivery services, and the perception of the delivery services rendered in the maternity ward of Okakarara hospital.

Thesis (M.Tech.: Nursing)-Durban Institute of Technology, 2005 1 v. : ill. ; 30 cm / An exploratory descriptive research design was used for this study which investigated the underutilisation of a rural clinic’s labour ward by low risk pregnant women (LRPW). The study took place in Maputaland, Northern KwaZulu-Natal. Rosenstock’s health belief model (HBM) modified by Becker et al, in 1977 was adapted as a framework for this study.

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A violência institucional em maternidades é tema de estudo em diversos países. Pesquisas demonstram que além das dificuldades econômicas e estruturais, freqüentes nos serviços públicos, encontram-se, subjacentes aos maus tratos vividos pelas pacientes, aspectos sócio-culturais relacionados a uma prática discriminatória quanto a gênero, classe social e etnia. A hipótese deste trabalho é a de que a violência institucional em maternidades é, fundamentalmente, uma violência de gênero que, pautada por significados culturais estereotipados de desvalorização e submissão da mulher, a discrimina por sua condição de gênero e a toma como objeto das ações de outrem. Essa violência se expressa, de forma particular, no contexto da crise de confiança que a medicina tecnológica contemporânea engendra, com a fragilização dos vínculos e interações entre profissionais e paciente. O objetivo do estudo foi investigar como e porque a violência institucional acontece nas maternidades públicas no contexto brasileiro. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa de corte qualitativo com 21 entrevistas semi-estruturadas com puérperas atendidas em maternidades públicas do município de São Paulo e 18 entrevistas com profissionais de saúde que atuam em diferentes maternidades, do mesmo município e adjacentes. A análise do material buscou relatos de violência institucional nos depoimentos e os valores e opiniões associados. Os dados revelaram que tanto as puérperas quanto os profissionais entrevistados reconhecem práticas discriminatórias e tratamento grosseiro no âmbito da assistência em maternidades públicas com tal frequência que se torna muitas vezes esperado pelas pacientes que sofram algum tipo de maltrato. Dificuldades estruturais, a formação pessoal e profissional, e a própria impunidade desses atos foram apontados como causas para a violência institucional. Os relatos também demonstraram uma banalização da violência institucional através de jargões de cunho moralista e discriminatório, usados como brincadeiras pelos profissionais; no uso de ameaças como forma de persuadir a paciente e na naturalização da dor do parto como preço a ser pago para se tornar mãe. Consideramos que a banalização da violência aponta para a banalização da injustiça e do sofrimento alheio como um fenômeno social que atinge a toda sociedade; para a fragilização dos vínculos de interação pessoal entre profissionais e pacientes e para a cristalização de estereótipos de classe e gênero que se refletem na assistência a essas pacientes, além de contribuir para a invisibilidade da violência como tema de reflexão e controle institucional / Institutional violence in maternity facilities is the subject of study in several countries. Researches show that besides economic and structural difficulties, which are frequent in state-run facilities, there are, underlying the abuse experienced by patients, socio-cultural aspects related to a discriminatory practice towards gender, social class and ethnicity. The hypothesis of this work is that institutional violence in maternity facilities is essentially a gender-based violence which, guided by stereotypical cultural meanings of devaluation and subjugation of woman, discriminates her by her gender condition and takes her as object of others actions. This violence is expressed particularly in the context of the confidence crisis that contemporaneous medical technology engenders, with the weakening of bonds and interactions between professionals and patient. The objective of this study was to investigate how and why the institutional violence occurs in state-run maternity facilities in the Brazilian context. The work was carried out through qualitative research with 21 semi-structured interviews with birthing women treated at state-run maternity facilities in city of São Paulo and 18 interviews with health professionals working in different facilities in São Paulo and adjacent cities. The analysis of the material sought reports of institutional violence in the statements of the people interviewed and the values and opinions associated to them. The data showed that both birthing women and professionals interviewed acknowledge discriminatory practices and rude treatment in the state-run maternity facilities to such a degree that it is often expected by patients to suffer some kind of mistreatment. Structural difficulties, personal and professional education, and even the impunity of such acts were identified as causes of institutional violence. The reports also showed a trivialization of institutional violence through the use of moralistic and discriminatory jargon, used in jokes by professionals; through the use of threats as a way to persuade the patient and through the idea of naturalization of labor pain as the price to be paid to become a mother. We believe that the trivialization of violence points to the trivialization of injustice and suffering of others as a social phenomenon that affects the whole society, to the weakening of the ties of personal interaction between professionals and patients and for the crystallization of stereotypes of class and gender that reflect in the care for these patients, besides contributing to the invisibility of violence as a theme for reflection and institutional control

Thesis (M.Tech.: Nursing)-Durban Institute of Technology, 2005 1 v. : ill. ; 30 cm / An exploratory descriptive research design was used for this study which investigated the underutilisation of a rural clinic’s labour ward by low risk pregnant women (LRPW). The study took place in Maputaland, Northern KwaZulu-Natal. Rosenstock’s health belief model (HBM) modified by Becker et al, in 1977 was adapted as a framework for this study.

Diss. Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2005.

A violência institucional em maternidades é tema de estudo em diversos países. Pesquisas demonstram que além das dificuldades econômicas e estruturais, freqüentes nos serviços públicos, encontram-se, subjacentes aos maus tratos vividos pelas pacientes, aspectos sócio-culturais relacionados a uma prática discriminatória quanto a gênero, classe social e etnia. A hipótese deste trabalho é a de que a violência institucional em maternidades é, fundamentalmente, uma violência de gênero que, pautada por significados culturais estereotipados de desvalorização e submissão da mulher, a discrimina por sua condição de gênero e a toma como objeto das ações de outrem. Essa violência se expressa, de forma particular, no contexto da crise de confiança que a medicina tecnológica contemporânea engendra, com a fragilização dos vínculos e interações entre profissionais e paciente. O objetivo do estudo foi investigar como e porque a violência institucional acontece nas maternidades públicas no contexto brasileiro. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa de corte qualitativo com 21 entrevistas semi-estruturadas com puérperas atendidas em maternidades públicas do município de São Paulo e 18 entrevistas com profissionais de saúde que atuam em diferentes maternidades, do mesmo município e adjacentes. A análise do material buscou relatos de violência institucional nos depoimentos e os valores e opiniões associados. Os dados revelaram que tanto as puérperas quanto os profissionais entrevistados reconhecem práticas discriminatórias e tratamento grosseiro no âmbito da assistência em maternidades públicas com tal frequência que se torna muitas vezes esperado pelas pacientes que sofram algum tipo de maltrato. Dificuldades estruturais, a formação pessoal e profissional, e a própria impunidade desses atos foram apontados como causas para a violência institucional. Os relatos também demonstraram uma banalização da violência institucional através de jargões de cunho moralista e discriminatório, usados como brincadeiras pelos profissionais; no uso de ameaças como forma de persuadir a paciente e na naturalização da dor do parto como preço a ser pago para se tornar mãe. Consideramos que a banalização da violência aponta para a banalização da injustiça e do sofrimento alheio como um fenômeno social que atinge a toda sociedade; para a fragilização dos vínculos de interação pessoal entre profissionais e pacientes e para a cristalização de estereótipos de classe e gênero que se refletem na assistência a essas pacientes, além de contribuir para a invisibilidade da violência como tema de reflexão e controle institucional / Institutional violence in maternity facilities is the subject of study in several countries. Researches show that besides economic and structural difficulties, which are frequent in state-run facilities, there are, underlying the abuse experienced by patients, socio-cultural aspects related to a discriminatory practice towards gender, social class and ethnicity. The hypothesis of this work is that institutional violence in maternity facilities is essentially a gender-based violence which, guided by stereotypical cultural meanings of devaluation and subjugation of woman, discriminates her by her gender condition and takes her as object of others actions. This violence is expressed particularly in the context of the confidence crisis that contemporaneous medical technology engenders, with the weakening of bonds and interactions between professionals and patient. The objective of this study was to investigate how and why the institutional violence occurs in state-run maternity facilities in the Brazilian context. The work was carried out through qualitative research with 21 semi-structured interviews with birthing women treated at state-run maternity facilities in city of São Paulo and 18 interviews with health professionals working in different facilities in São Paulo and adjacent cities. The analysis of the material sought reports of institutional violence in the statements of the people interviewed and the values and opinions associated to them. The data showed that both birthing women and professionals interviewed acknowledge discriminatory practices and rude treatment in the state-run maternity facilities to such a degree that it is often expected by patients to suffer some kind of mistreatment. Structural difficulties, personal and professional education, and even the impunity of such acts were identified as causes of institutional violence. The reports also showed a trivialization of institutional violence through the use of moralistic and discriminatory jargon, used in jokes by professionals; through the use of threats as a way to persuade the patient and through the idea of naturalization of labor pain as the price to be paid to become a mother. We believe that the trivialization of violence points to the trivialization of injustice and suffering of others as a social phenomenon that affects the whole society, to the weakening of the ties of personal interaction between professionals and patients and for the crystallization of stereotypes of class and gender that reflect in the care for these patients, besides contributing to the invisibility of violence as a theme for reflection and institutional control

Pregnancy challenges the health care system in a unique way in that it involves at least two individuals – the woman and the fetus. The death rates of both pregnant women (maternal mortality) and newborns (perinatal mortality) are often used to indicate the quality of care the health system is providing. In terms of maternal and perinatal outcomes South Africa scores poorly compared to other upper-middle income countries (Penn-Kekana & Blaauw, 2002:14). The high stillbirth rate compared to the neonatal death rate reflects poor quality of antenatal care. Maternal and perinatal mortality is recognised as a problem and as a priority for action in the Millennium Development Goals (Thieren & Beusenberg, 2005:11). The Saving Mothers (Pattinson, 2002: 37-135) and Saving Babies (Pattinson, 2004:4-35) reports describe the causes and avoidable factors of these deaths with recommendations on how to improve care. The quality of care during the antenatal period may impact on the health of the pregnant woman and the outcome of the pregnancy, in particular on the still birth rate. In primary health care services there are many factors which may impact on and influence the quality of antenatal care. For example with the implementation of the comprehensive primary health care services package (Department of Health, 2001a:21-35) changes at clinic level resulted in a large number of primary health care professional nurses having to provide antenatal care, who previously may only have worked with one aspect of the primary health care package such as minor ailments or childcare. Because skills of midwifery or antenatal care, had not been practiced by some of these professional nurses, perhaps since completion of basic training, their level of competence has declined, and they have not been exposed to new developments in the field of midwifery. The practice of primary health care nurses is also influenced by the impact of diseases not specifically related to pregnancy like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. The principles of quality antenatal care are known (Chalmers et al. 2001:203) but despite the knowledge about these principles the maternal and perinatal mortality remains high. The Basic Antenatal Care quality improvement package is designed to assist clinical management and decision making in antenatal care. The implementation of the BANC package may influence the quality of antenatal care positively, which in turn may impact on the outcome of pregnancy for the mother and her baby. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Basic antenatal care (BANC) package to improve the quality of antenatal care at primary health care clinics.