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    • Binfa Esbir, Lorena; Pantoja Manzanarez, Loreto; Ortiz Contreras, Jovita; Gurovich Albala, Marcela; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel; Foster, Jennifer (Elsevier, 2016-04)
      Objective: in 2010, a pilot study was conducted among women who were attended by midwives in the public sector in Santiago, Chile. The purpose of that study was to evaluate the implementation of the 'Model of Integrated ...
    • Araya Bannout, Marcela; Díaz, M.; Paredes Fernández, Daniela; Ortiz Contreras, Jovita (Elsevier, 2017)
      Objectives: Chile is a post-transitional country evolving towards a stationary population pyramid, which may be associated with increasing preterm birth (PTB) rates. This study aimed to compare maternal sociodemographic ...
    • Binfa Esbir, Lorena; Pantoja Manzanarez, Loreto; Ortiz Contreras, Jovita; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel; Schindler, Peter; Ypania Burgos, Rosa; Maganha e Melo, Celia Regina; Florentino Pereira da Silva, Lucia Cristina; Pimentel Lima, Marlise de Oliveira; Valli Hernández, Laura; Schlenker, Rosana; Sanchez, Verdun; Solis Rojas, Mirian; Cruz Huaman, Betty; Torres Chauca, María Luisa; Cillo, Alicia; Lofeudo, Susana; Zapiola, Sandra; Weeks, Fiona; Foster, Jennifer (Elsevier Sci. Ltd., 2016)
      Objective: over the past three decades there has been a social movement in Latin American countries (LAC) to support humanised, physiologic birth. Rates of caesarean section overall in Latin America are approximately 35%, ...