{"id":1344,"date":"2025-09-14T20:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:54:01","slug":"exploring-research-and-healthcare-priorities-in-maternal-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/news\/exploring-research-and-healthcare-priorities-in-maternal-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring research and healthcare priorities in maternal health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our new ethnographic study highlights maternal health priorities voiced by ethnic minority mothers in the UK. They emphasised the importance of effective communication &amp; culturally safe care. They call for clear advice and support for healthy lifestyles \u2014 particularly physical activity \u2014 supporting perinatal mental health and easing the transition to parenthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The study calls for co-designed research and policy to address systemic barriers and improve equity in maternity care. Read the full paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeanjournalofmidwifery.eu\/Exploring-research-and-healthcare-priorities-in-maternal-health-A-qualitative-ethnographic,209195,0,2.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.europeanjournalofmidwifery.eu\/Exploring-research-and-healthcare-priorities-in-maternal-health-A-qualitative-ethnographic,209195,0,2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/209195_63c08_o-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/209195_63c08_o-1.jpg 441w, https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/209195_63c08_o-1-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new ethnographic study highlights maternal health priorities voiced by ethnic minority mothers in the UK. They emphasised the importance of effective communication &amp; culturally safe care. They call for clear advice and support for healthy lifestyles \u2014 particularly physical activity \u2014 supporting perinatal mental health and easing the transition to parenthood. The study calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miherc.org\/miherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}