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Implement NMAP one to one care for childbearing women
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NMAP is the National Maternity
Action Plan. NMAP is a blueprint for reform of Australia's maternity services.
It has been put together by pregnant women and mothers who are committed to seeing women have the choice of a known midwife to care for them throughout pregnancy, birth and the first few weeks after the birth. NMAP has been developed by The Maternity Coalition Inc. (MC) is a national non-profit, non-political and non-sectarian consumer advocacy organisation. MC acts as an umbrella organisation to bring together support groups and individuals for effective lobbying, information sharing, networking and support in maternity services.
MC believes in the importance of women uniting their efforts and sharing skills and resources to achieve beneficial changes in the health care system in the interests of improving birthing services.
MC supports consumer and midwife participation at all levels of health policy planning, decision-making and service delivery.
Maternity Coalition:
encourages a woman-centred approach to the birth process;
regard pregnancy and childbirth as normal physiological processes, not illnesses;
stresses the social, cultural and psychological factors influencing childbirth;
supports midwives as the primary caregivers for women in normal birth;
emphasises women's rights to make informed choices about their caregiver and place of birth;
promotes continuous assessment and critical evaluation of technologies used in maternity care;
supports the development of services sensitive to women's varied cultural and physical needs.
NMAP is the National Maternity
Action Plan. NMAP is a blueprint for reform of Australia's maternity services.
It has been put together by pregnant women and mothers who are committed to seeing women have the choice of a known midwife to care for them throughout pregnancy, birth and the first few weeks after the birth. NMAP has been developed by The Maternity Coalition Inc. (MC) is a national non-profit, non-political and non-sectarian consumer advocacy organisation. MC acts as an umbrella organisation to bring together support groups and individuals for effective lobbying, information sharing, networking and support in maternity services.
MC believes in the importance of women uniting their efforts and sharing skills and resources to achieve beneficial changes in the health care system in the interests of improving birthing services.
MC supports consumer and midwife participation at all levels of health policy planning, decision-making and service delivery.
Maternity Coalition:
encourages a woman-centred approach to the birth process;
regard pregnancy and childbirth as normal physiological processes, not illnesses;
stresses the social, cultural and psychological factors influencing childbirth;
supports midwives as the primary caregivers for women in normal birth;
emphasises women's rights to make informed choices about their caregiver and place of birth;
promotes continuous assessment and critical evaluation of technologies used in maternity care;
supports the development of services sensitive to women's varied cultural and physical needs.
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