title: Midwives and maternal and child health: building resource capacity.
abstract: With dramatic changes in health, social services, and welfare systems and escalating pressure to increase clinical productivity, midwives need to enhance their capacity to work with federal, regional, and state partners to promote and protect comprehensive, culturally competent, and community-based quality health care for pregnant women and their families. Information about maternal and child health (MCH) regional and state resources is provided, and strategies for obtaining additional MCH resources are suggested, so that midwives and other women's health care providers can more effectively improve health care programs and systems that benefit women and their families. In addition, ways to work with MCH programs at the regional and state levels are described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Child Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lydon-Rochelle
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: West
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008880:Midwifery / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011247:Pregnancy; D014481:United States