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PubMed1992

The transformation of American midwifery: 1975 to 1988.

BACKGROUND: The use of midwives is a natural solution to the problem of improving access to skilled perinatal services while lowering costs. The number of midwife-attended births has grown from 0.9% of all births in 1975 to 3.4% of all births in 1988. The purpose of the study was to determine how mothers served by midwives and the settings in which they are served have changed in that period. METHODS: The analysis is based on birth certificate data from 1975 to 1988 from the Natality, Marriage and Divorce Statistics Branch of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control. RESULTS: Almost all of the growth (93.2%) in midwife-attended births from 1975 to 1988 was in hospitals; 87.3% of all births attended by midwives occurred in hospitals. Pronounced differences exist between mothers served by midwives in and outside of hospitals, and there are strong regional patterns in midwife attendance at birth. CONCLUSIONS: Given the positive outcomes associated with midwifery practice, further research into the content of midwifery care is recommended.

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PubMed1993

Where babies are born and who attends their births: findings from the revised 1989 United States Standard Certificate of Live Birth.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the results of changes in the birth certificate with regard to characteristics of the mothers and the birth weights of their infants. The United States Standard Certificate of Live Birth was revised in 1989 to include specific designations for the place of births out of hospital and the presence of a nurse-midwife or other midwife at the birth. METHODS: All results are based on data from the Natality, Marriage and Divorce Statistics Branch of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control. In all cases reported here, the data represent at least 91% of all United States births in 1989. RESULTS: Different patterns of birth attendance emerged in different settings. In residential births, other midwives and "others" attended 66% of all births, whereas in freestanding birth centers, physicians and certified nurse-midwives attended 75.1% of all births. The characteristics of the mothers differed substantially according to who attended their births in these settings. Substantial interstate variations in place and attendant were also documented. CONCLUSION: The positive outcomes achieved in certain settings indicate a need for further research into the factors that influence birth outcomes.

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PubMed1996

The day of the week on which couples marry.

Saturday is the most popular day to marry: two thirds of all marriages in England and Wales take place then. However, Saturday marriages are not so popular as they were-in 1979, over three quarters of weddings were solemnised on Saturdays. Civil marriages are seven times as likely as religious marriages to take place during the week: the proportions were one in 2, and one in 14, respectively, in 1994. Friday was the relatively most frequent weekday. There was a small peak of weddings on St Valentine's Day in 1994-which fell on a Monday-particularly amongst couples both of whom were remarrying after divorce. The analyses in this article are based on new data on marriages by day of the week in England and Wales. These will be routinely published from 1994 onwards in the ONS annual reference volumes Marriage and divorce statistics (FM2 series).

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PubMed1997

Spouses with identical residential addresses before marriage: an indicator of pre-marital cohabitation.

This article analyses new data on identical address marriages in England and Wales during 1994. It outlines previous background research which has provided good evidence that identical address marriages are likely to be ones in which the couple premaritally cohabited. Recent evidence, based on results from the General Household Survey, is also presented. The article analyses the number and characteristics of identical address marriages, both to provide new (proxy) information on pre-marital cohabitation, and also to announce the publication of a new set of tables on identical address marriages which will be included in the Marriage and Divorce Statistics annual reference volume in future years. Overall, six in every 10 couples marrying in 1994 gave identical addresses. The pattern of variation of this proportion among different subgroups of couples who married in 1994 is analysed--according to: age at marriage; the previous marital status of the partners before marriage; the manner of solemnisation of the marriage, and, for religious weddings, by denomination; by day of the week; month of the year, and by the county in which the wedding took place.

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