ANTHRCUL 325 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gynaecology, Biological Specificity, Umbilical Cord

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 325
• Professor: J. Henrike Florusbosch

Document Summary

In many ways flanders and the netherlands are quite similar: they share a border, speak (more or less) the same language and have comparable political systems. It is surprising that there is a great variation in the way the flemish and dutch maternity care systems are organized. In flanders the risks of childbirth are emphasized and a medical model of birth is the norm. In the netherlands, women expecting a physiological birth are directed into midwife-led care with minimal use of interventions, resulting in a home birth rate of more than 20% and midwife-led hospital birth rate of 11. 4% In the netherlands, the registration of data takes place in the practices of general practitioners, and obstetricians. In flanders, maternity care remains highly standardized and medicalized: however, the turn of the 21st century a decline for some interventions began. In the period between 1994 and 2010 the percentage of home births declined steadily in the.