title: Midwifery in Mexico.
abstract: In Mexico, traditional midwives maintain the customs and rituals that have surrounded pregnancy and childbirth since pre-Hispanic times. 'Empirical' midwives are allowed to practise on the basis of experience and a minimal two-week training programme. Graduate nurse-midwives usually go into general nursing and few practise midwifery, despite taking a year's specialist training in their four-year course. A project with graduate nurse-midwives demonstrated safe practice--the nurse-midwives delivered 1,500 babies with no maternal deaths and only two infant deaths in the five-year period.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Trueba
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008800:Mexico; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000193:education / Q000600:supply & distribution; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome