Hochschule Osnabrück - Network of Midwifery Research
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Developing new perspectives – midwives present their work
| Project title: | Health system research in the context of women’s health reporting – an analysis of data on the provision of care by midwives |
| Objective: | To create the basis for future nationwide data gathering in respect of the services provided by midwives |
| Target group: | All midwives living and/or working in Lower Saxony |
| Design: | Retrospective regional survey |
| Method: | Expert survey (individual interviews and workshops), postal survey of all midwives in Lower Saxony |
| Duration: | 01/10/2006 - 31/12/2008 |
| Financing: | Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, F.A. no. 2006.754. |
Today it is still impossible to compile a full report in German healthcare reporting concerning the provision of health care to women in the life span of pregnancy, birth, the postnatal and breastfeeding periods. The involvement of midwives and the range of services they provide can also not currently be comprehensively represented. Correspondingly, current and future needs in terms of midwife services are not fully known.
The aim of the research project is to obtain data on the spectrum of midwife services in the state of Lower Saxony in 2007.
Data are obtained by a combination of methods: expert interviews and postal survey with n=2037 midwives in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany.
The aim of the research project is to gain an overview in relation to the available and lacking data on the provision of care by midwives and indicate potential ways in which the data might be completed, in order to be able to use it for health system research in the context of healthcare reporting.
- Working meeting in March 2007, Photo: C. Igney
Principal investigator:
Prof. Dr. Friederike zu Sayn- Wittgenstein
Research assistant:
Rainhild Schäfers, Health-care manager grad. (Dipl. Pflegewirtin (FH)), CM
Student assistants: Matthis Schäfers, Inken Brodersen
Cooperating partners:
Deutscher Hebammenverband (DHV e.V.) www.hebammenverband.de
Hebammenverband Niedersachsen e.V. www.hebammen-niedersachsen.de
Ingenierbüro Zimmermann www.hebrech.de
Contact:
Rainhild Schäfers
University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck
Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences
Postfach 1940
49009 Osnabrück, Germany
Fon: +49 (0)541 969 3238
Fax: +49 (0)541 969 3765
E-Mail: schaefers(at)wi.fh-osnabrueck.de