Thansk Denise for quoting this site. i printed the entire 58 pages and did find it to be aimed at the early childhood years, but a good doc to have. Interestingly, under the ALP policy site I typed in a few words to see what they had, here are some of them and the results.
Childbirth - No policies or media releases cited. Birth - One media release (Carmen's) on the declining number of births in oz. Maternity - Media Releases mainly focusing on maternity leave for women. Midwifery - No policies or media releases cited. Homebirth - No policies or media releases cited. And the most surprising of all ............... Community Midwifery - No policies or media releases cited. In fact it 'diverted' to some media releases on community issues. I pointed this out to the ALP guy I met with yesterday, he was embarrassed to say the least. Kind Regards Sally-Anne Brown ---------- From: Denise Hynd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CMWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Political Action continued Date: Friday, 12 October 2001 15:58 Dear all On the Alp web site in their policies on Family support http://www.alp.org.au/policy/pdpfamily150500.html they talk about Us and European early intervention and home visiting programs as examples of the justification/examples for Early Intervetion Programs! Reading this has suggested writing/speaking to them to point out that there is Australain research that midwifery models of care deliver even earlier and just as profund social benefits for example "Birth Becomes her" Dr Tracey Reibel's studies of the outcomes of the CMWA!! Any other suggestions of similar research?? Denise Ps I am waiting for a birth!! -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
