Midwifery Care for the Amazigh of Morocco
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Abstract
Despite improvements in health care services, Morocco continues to experience poor perinatal outcomes in rural and remote regions. In response, a series of initiatives were proposed including strategies to strengthen the profession of midwifery which was identified as a key component. In 2008 a Moroccan framework for midwifery education, regulation, and funding was established. Midwifery care, while highly utilized in urban hospitals, is not accessed as frequently in rural regions. A scoping review examined the social barriers to midwifery uptake using the Arksey and O’Malley’s 2005 framework. The socio-cultural context was found to significantly impede the uptake of midwifery care and thus impact maternal and neonatal outcomes. Language barriers, cultural differences, gender inequality and socioeconomic factors were found to be key barriers impacting the acceptability of midwifery care in rural Morocco. RÉSUMÉMalgré l’amélioration des services de soins de santé, le Maroc continue de connaître de mauvaises issues périnatales dans les régions rurales et éloignées. En réaction à ce problème, des initiatives ont été proposées, y compris des stratégies de renforcement de la profession de sage-femme, qui a été déterminée comme étant un volet essentiel. En 2008, un cadre marocain a été établi pour l’enseignement, la réglementation et le financement de la pratique sage-femme. L’accès aux soins des sages-femmes n’est pas aussi fréquent dans les régions rurales que dans les hôpitaux urbains, où les services des membres de la profession sont très utilisés. Un examen de la portée a été réalisé à l’aide du cadre de 2005 d’Arksey et O’Malley afin d’étudier les obstacles sociaux à l’utilisation des services des sages-femmes. On a constaté que le contexte socioculturel nuisait de façon significative à l’adoption des soins des sages-femmes et qu’il avait ainsi une incidence sur les issues maternelles et néonatales. Les barrières linguistiques, les différences culturelles, l’inégalité entre les sexes et des facteurs socioéconomiques se sont révélés les principaux obstacles à l’acceptabilité des soins des sages-femmes dans les régions rurales du Maroc.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".