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About this resource

Maternity and Infant Care is an important essential resource for academics and healthcare professionals involved in the care of women and infants. This unique database contains over 120,000 references with abstracts to journal articles from over 550 international English language journals, books, and grey literature relating to pregnancy, labor, birth, postnatal care, and neonatal care and the first year of an infant's life. Database coverage is from the mid-1980s and approximately 1000 records are added to the database per month.

  • Data Format: Text (chiefly periodical article citations and abstracts).
  • Frequency of updates: Updated monthly

Subject headings

  • Midwives--Information services.
  • Maternal health services--Great Britain.
  • Midwifery.
  • Childbirth.
  • Obstetrics.
  • Labor (Obstetrics).
  • Midwifery--Periodicals--Indexes.
  • Childbirth--Periodicals--Indexes.
  • Obstetrics--Periodicals--Abstracts.
  • Labor (Obstetrics)--Periodicals--Abstracts.
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