PERSPECTIVES OF MIDWIVES ON RESPECTFUL MATERNITY CARE

Perspectives of midwives on respectful maternity care

Abstract Background Respectful maternity care forms the foundation of maternity services; however, delivery of dignified, efficient, and effective care in these settings remains inconsistent.Research has identified several factors that influence respectful maternity care.To understand the South African context, these factors were explored and descr

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Estimation of annual runoff by exploiting long-term spatial patterns and short records within a geostatistical framework

In this article, we present a Bayesian geostatistical framework that is particularly suitable for interpolation of hydrological data when the available dataset is sparse and includes both long and short records of runoff.A key feature of the proposed framework is that several years of runoff are modelled simultaneously with two spatial fields: one

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