The unbooked maternity patient in an academic hospital in Durban
Curationis
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The unbooked maternity patient in an academic hospital in Durban | |
| Creator | Gcaba, R. Brookes, H.B. | |
| Description | This paper examines the unbooked maternity patient in an academic hospital in Durban, Natal; This hospital is the biggest hospital serving the underprivileged population of this area. Of the 16000 annual deliveries in this hospital, about 12% are unbooked patients. The health belief model of Rosenstock, as interpreted by Mikhail and Cox’s interaction model of client health behaviour were used as a theoretical framework for this research. A qualitative case study methodology was undertaken and semi-structured interviews were conducted with unbooked mothers who had utilized appropriate health services in a previous pregnancy. The aim of such interviews was to explore reasons given by mothers for non-use of facilities in the current pregnancy. The basic trends reflected in the findings regarding non-utilization of health services were client instability, health service failure and socio-cultural constraints, The study is innovative and addresses the problem from a social-cultural and midwifery perspective. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1992-09-26 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/curationis.v15i3.367 | |
| Source | Curationis; Vol 15, No 3 (1992); 43-47 2223-6279 0379-8577 | |
| Language | eng | |
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