Anna Melamed's Outputs (7)

Facilitators and barriers to access to midwife-led birth settings for racialized women in the UK: A scoping review (2024)
Journal Article

Background
In UK maternity care, racialized women have worse experiences and clinical outcomes than White women. Midwife-led birth settings (MLBS), including home births and midwife-led units, both freestanding and alongside hospitals, are all avail... Read More about Facilitators and barriers to access to midwife-led birth settings for racialized women in the UK: A scoping review.

Risk assessments and ethnicity in maternity care: looking through the wrong end of the telescope? (2024)
Journal Article

Many Black and brown women are classified as ‘high risk’ and follow obstetric-led pathways. This may be the result of social determinants of health, or over pathologisation as a result of racial bias by healthcare providers and systems. There may be... Read More about Risk assessments and ethnicity in maternity care: looking through the wrong end of the telescope?.

Trans and non-binary experiences of maternity services: Cautioning against acting without evidence (2023)
Journal Article

Research into the experiences of trans and non-binary users of maternity services in England was recently commissioned by the Health and Wellbeing Alliance. It was conducted by the LGBT Foundation, culminating in the ‘improving trans and non-binary e... Read More about Trans and non-binary experiences of maternity services: Cautioning against acting without evidence.

Risk discourse in pregnancy and birth; a mechanism of control (2023)
Journal Article

A post-structuralist feminist analysis of electronic fetal monitoring in labour (2023)
Journal Article

Constant electronic fetal monitoring has become a ubiquitous part of birth management in most high-income countries, both reflecting and creating the social context. This article uses a post-structuralist feminist critique to show that the use of the... Read More about A post-structuralist feminist analysis of electronic fetal monitoring in labour.

The Witch Trials, midwives and the battle for the body (2022)
Journal Article

During the 16th and 17th century, all across Europe, in every town and village, women were killed as witches; many of whom were midwives. How did this brutal period of our history affect midwifery?
The process of the witch trials started with a stea... Read More about The Witch Trials, midwives and the battle for the body.

The true cost of maternity charging (2018)
Journal Article

The introduction of health charging for maternity services contributes to vulnerable migrant women not receiving the antenatal care they need. Despite the commitment to bringing down health inequalities by the Department of Health, this policy deters... Read More about The true cost of maternity charging.