• Project status: Active
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This study is implementing and evaluating a new approach to antenatal and postnatal care that involves inter-agency collaboration between public maternity hospitals, refugee settlement agencies, and maternal and child health (MCH) services.

Overview

woman and childThe Group Pregnancy Care study is implementing and evaluating a new approach to antenatal and postnatal care that involves inter-agency collaboration between public maternity hospitals, refugee settlement agencies, and maternal and child health (MCH) services.

The aim of the program is to provide multifaceted, culturally appropriate preventive health care, information and support to refugee women during and after pregnancy in a group setting.

The program is cost-free; provides care and information that is woman-directed, culturally appropriate and in women’s language; and facilitates links and referrals to services as necessary.

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Program Principles

The organisations and staff involved have agreed to apply these principles:

  • Community consultation and engagement
  • Establish rapport with the woman and when present her family
  • Giving women time and space to ask questions, check understanding and consent for medical tests and other procedures and Inform family of procedures, when appropriate
  • Provide an on-site interpreter for pregnancy appointments
  • Continuity of care (including interpreters and bicultural workers)
  • Support women and her family’s pathway through the health system
  • Promote women’s understanding of preventative health
  • Respect, empathy, openness and sensitivity to cultural difference
  • Recognise and understand the refugee re-settlement experience
  • Work within a social model of health
  • Outreach, referral and service co-ordination
  • Client feedback and evaluation.
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