Göçmen Kadınların Ebelik Hizmetlerine Gereksinimi

Human being has to migrate for various reasons from the earliest times of history until today. Unfortunately, this obligation continues to be valid in the present century. Today, people have to leave their environment due to many reasons such as wars, hunger, drought, unemployment, education, diseases, epidemics, and disasters. Migrants become vulnerable to health risks, and diseases during the migration process. This state for migrants is a painful period of experience. Although migration affects every segment regardless of gender, and age group, women, children, and infants are among the most affected population because they are more sensitive, and vulnerable. The problems that migrant women experience in accessing health services for family planning, pregnancy, and childbirth affect both their, and their children's health on a wide scale, including today, and tomorrow. Effective midwifery services should be provided by removing the obstacles experienced by migrant women in accessing health services in preconceptional, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. This situation is of great importance in terms of reducing the morbidity, and mortality rates of immigrant mothers, and newborns, and sustainability of health. This study was conducted to evaluate the needs of migrant women for midwifery services.