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Dr Nicky Hudson

Senior Research Fellow

School of Applied Social Sciences

De Montfort University

Room 0.15b Hawthorn Building

The Gateway

Leicester

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t:  0116 2078766





You are cordially invited to this lunch time seminar, one of a regular series of HSC Research Seminars which are open to all.       Please feel free to bring your lunch.





School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University Open Research Seminar



Improving maternity care in rural Nepal: A health promotion intervention Professor Edwin van Teijlingen



Wednesday 9 February 2011

1-1.50 pm, R301, Royal London House



Abstract

Rural maternity care research in Nepal

Community-based health promotion interventions must be both evidence-based as well as culturally and socially acceptable to the target population. This is particularly the case in rural areas of developing countries, where historically outsiders (i.e. national or regional governments or international donor agencies) have made decisions about the most ‘appropriate’ health and development interventions. Such interventions are often based on the needs outsiders perceive to exist.



This seminar reports on our work on-going work in Nepal, particularly on ways to establish the needs of a rural population in preparation of a low-cost sustainable health promotion intervention aimed at improving maternity care.

Context of intervention/project: two neighbouring rural areas in Kathmandu Valley. Methods: Mixed methods approach with large-scale community-based needs assessment conducted at household level and additional qualitative and participatory research.



Results and Conclusions: The needs assessment helped focus the health promotion activities that were culturally appropriate on aspects of antenatal care and postnatal care in the first days of the baby’s life.  The research also helped to set more realistic expectations in the local community.

Collaborators in this international project are based at the University of Sheffield, Bournemouth University; Green Tara Trust UK, London; the University of Aberdeen; and the Nepalese charity Green Tara Nepal based in Kathmandu.



Biography

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen is a medical sociologist with a long-standing interest in international heath. He is Professor of Reproductive Health Research at Bournemouth University.  Edwin has been involved in a range of studies in the reproductive and sexual health field, both in the UK and abroad (especially in the Netherlands and Nepal).



He has published more than 135 peer-reviewed articles. Many of his studies are based on mixed-methods and/or on cross-cultural approaches. He has also published a range of papers on various aspects of qualitative research methods. His edited books include Birth by Design (Routledge) and Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth (Nova Science, NY).



Edwin is Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland as well as Visiting Professor at Manhohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Purbanchal University, Kathmandu, Nepal.















Val Simcock

Offices of:

Dr Lee-Ann Fenge, Associate Dean Postgraduate Students, Professor Kathleen Galvin, Chair in Health Research Professor Les Todres, Professor in Qualitative Research, Professor Edwin van Teijlingen, Professor of Reproductive Health Research



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