Gaskin Ina May
INA MAY GASKIN is a certified professional midwife and the director of the Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tennessee. She is the author of Spiritual Midwifery , now in its fourth edition, and Ina May's Guide to Childbirth , now in its fifth printing since its publication in 2003. She is the originator and curator of the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project.
J Perinat Educ. 2008 Spring;17(2):9-13. doi: 10.1624/105812408X298336.
The United States has a higher ratio of maternal deaths than at least 40 other countries, even though it spends more money per capita for maternity care than any other. The lack of a comprehensive, confidential system of ascertainment of maternal death designed to record and analyze every maternal death continues to subject U.S. women to unnecessary risk of preventable mortality. Maternal deaths must be reviewed to make motherhood safer. The United Kingdom's Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health is considered the "gold standard" of national professional self-evaluation. The aim of the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project is to raise public awareness of the rising U.S. maternal death rate and necessary steps to a solution.
美国的孕产妇死亡率比至少40个其他国家都高，尽管其人均用于孕产妇护理的费用比其他任何国家都多。缺乏一个全面、保密的孕产妇死亡确定系统来记录和分析每一例孕产妇死亡情况，这继续使美国妇女面临可预防死亡的不必要风险。必须对孕产妇死亡情况进行审查，以保障孕产安全。英国的孕产妇和儿童健康保密调查被视为国家专业自我评估的“黄金标准”。安全孕产拼布项目的目的是提高公众对美国孕产妇死亡率上升的认识以及对解决问题所需采取步骤的认识。
