Sally Tracy
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Sally Tracy DMid is an Australia
n, midwife, midwifery
researcher, author and activist.
Tracy is the Professor of Midwifery at the University of Sydney and the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney and a Conjoint Professor, University of New South Wales
, Sydney. She is based at the Midwifery and Women's Health Research Unit at the Royal Hospital for Women
, Randwick, Sydney. Her research projects include the safety of primary level (especially rural) maternity hospitals and Birth Centres in Australia and the evaluation of midwifery led units. She is currently the chief investigator on a large multicentre randomised controlled trial of caseload midwifery care, funded by a project grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. The M@NGO Project [Midwives @ New Group practice Options] will report their findings in 2011. She has authored numerous research articles. She was a joint author of the National Maternity Action Plan
.
For the past fifteen years Tracy has been at the forefront of midwifery politics in Australia. She has challenged the Australian maternity system through research and practice development in a bid to get a better deal for women in childbirth. She helped to set up the Ryde Midwifery Caseload Practice, in Sydney, in 2003. Her current research questions the acceptability of the increasing interference of obstetrics with the physiological birth process.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n, midwife, midwifery
Midwifery
Midwifery is a health care profession in which providers offer care to childbearing women during pregnancy, labour and birth, and during the postpartum period. They also help care for the newborn and assist the mother with breastfeeding....
researcher, author and activist.
Tracy is the Professor of Midwifery at the University of Sydney and the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney and a Conjoint Professor, University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
, Sydney. She is based at the Midwifery and Women's Health Research Unit at the Royal Hospital for Women
Royal Hospital for Women
The Royal Hospital for Women is a specialist hospital for women and babies located in the suburb of Randwick in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.-History:The RHW began life in 1820 as a 'lying-in' hospital under auspices of the Benevolent Society...
, Randwick, Sydney. Her research projects include the safety of primary level (especially rural) maternity hospitals and Birth Centres in Australia and the evaluation of midwifery led units. She is currently the chief investigator on a large multicentre randomised controlled trial of caseload midwifery care, funded by a project grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. The M@NGO Project [Midwives @ New Group practice Options] will report their findings in 2011. She has authored numerous research articles. She was a joint author of the National Maternity Action Plan
National Maternity Action Plan
The National Maternity Action Plan is an Australian document prepared by maternity consumer groups to alter the way Governments fund and resource maternity services.-History:...
.
For the past fifteen years Tracy has been at the forefront of midwifery politics in Australia. She has challenged the Australian maternity system through research and practice development in a bid to get a better deal for women in childbirth. She helped to set up the Ryde Midwifery Caseload Practice, in Sydney, in 2003. Her current research questions the acceptability of the increasing interference of obstetrics with the physiological birth process.
Selected bibliography
- Midwifery - Preparation for Practice", 2nd Ed Sally Pairman, Sally Tracy, Carol Thorogood & Jan Pincombe , Elsevier, 2011 ISBN 978-0-7295-3756-8
- Normal Birth - What are My Chances
- Foreword - With WomenWith WomenWith Women: Midwives experiences: from shift work to continuity of care is the fourth book from Australian writer David Vernon.The book is an edited anthology of midwives' experiences of moving from providing care in a shift work environment to providing care in a continuity-of-care model...
- an analysis of the differences between shift work and continuity of care, ed David Vernon, Australian College of MidwivesAustralian College of MidwivesThe Australian College of Midwives is the peak professional organisation representing midwives and midwifery policy in Australia.Key strategies of the ACM are to:* Provide a unified political voice for the midwifery profession...
, 2007 pXI - Rates of Obstetric Intervention among Private and Public patients in Australia - a population based study, Christine Roberts, Sally Tracy and Brian Peat, MJ 2000;321:137-141 ( 15 July )
External links
- http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1463815.htmNew Birth Centre Prompts Debate - Interview The 7.30 ReportThe 7.30 ReportThe 7.30 Report is an Australian nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at , Mondays–Thursdays...
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