Moving in the right direction?

Until recently, maternity care in the early 1990s as a strategy to reorganize health services were divided among the specialized medical governance and health care delivery from the core to fields of obstetrics and gynecology, while prenatal care the periphery of the system (BC Ministry of Health, was provided by family doctors/general practition- 1993). [...] Earlier studies indicate persistent geographical (registers vital events occurring in the province and disparities in access to health services and also show provides a spectrum of vital statistics-related products that the overall health status of non-urban populations and services to meet a variety of public needs) and the is poorer compared to urban populations (BC Rural BC Ambulance Service (p [...] The researchers also have As discussed next, access to maternity care services access to data gathered from additional focus groups and the quality of general health care were the primary with urban women that were conducted by the Min- concerns of the non-urban women participants. [...] Finally, lars and the opportunity for greater participation in primary interview data gathered from an earlier study the organization of health services at the community undertaken by one of the authors (Benoit) on a non- level, the women participating in the focus groups random sample of midwives and physicians delivering and personal interviews expressed, for the most part, maternity care servic [...] Only two midwives were practicing in the for a period in the community and provide basic health north of the province, both in the city of Prince George care, including maternity services to local residents.