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Judith McAra-Couper
Judith McAra-Couper is a New Zealand academic and a professor of midwifery at Auckland University of Technology. Biography McAra-Couper completed a diploma in midwifery at Auckland University of Technology and spent five years working in a remote village in Bangladesh. She returned to New Zealand in 1996 and was appointed a midwifery lecturer at Auckland University of Technology. She completed a PhD PHD or PhD may refer to: * Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification Entertainment * '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series * ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic * Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group ** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ... in 2007 titled ''What is shaping the practice of health professionals and the understanding of the public in relation to increasing intervention in childbirth?''. Her doctoral advisors were Marion Jones and Elizabeth Smythe. In 2009 McAra-Couper was employed by the World Health Organization to design and support midwifery traini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland University Of Technology
Auckland University of Technology (AUT) ( mi, Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau) is a university in New Zealand, formed on 1 January 2000 when a former technical college (originally established in 1895) was granted university status. AUT is New Zealand's third largest university in terms of total student enrolment, with approximately 29,100 students enrolled across three campuses in Auckland. It has five faculties, and an additional three specialist locations: AUT Millennium, Warkworth Radio Astronomical Observatory and AUT Centre for Refugee Education. AUT enrolled more than 29,000 students in 2018, including 4,194 international students from 94 countries and 2,417 postgraduate students. AUT's student population is diverse with a range of ethnic backgrounds including New Zealand European, Asian, Māori and Pasifika. Students also represent a wide age range with 22% being aged 25–39 years and 10% being 40 or older. AUT employed 2,474 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Cowan
Florence Joyce Cowan is a New Zealand midwife and educator, and an authority on pre-eclampsia Pre-eclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy characterized by the onset of high blood pressure and often a significant amount of protein in the urine. When it arises, the condition begins after 20 weeks of pregnancy. In severe cases of the disease .... She was co-founder and director of the charity NZ Action on Pre-eclampsia, and introduced the GAP programme to monitor the growth of small babies. In 2023 Cowan was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to midwifery, after a more than fifty year career contributing to the profession. Career Cowan trained as a registered nurse at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, beginning in 1966, and then travelled to Dunedin, where she intended to train as a doctor. However having recently met her husband-to-be, photographer John Cowan, she decided not to put her home life and family on hold for the necessary six years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of India in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Jones (academic)
Edith Marion Jones (born 1944) is a New Zealand nursing academic. As of September 2018 she is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a 1993 Master's titled ''Shaping nursing praxis: some registered nurses' perceptions and beliefs of theory practice'' from Massey University and a 2001 PhD titled ''Shaping team practice in the context of health reform opportunities, tensions, benefits'' at Flinders University of South Australia, Jones moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor. Notable students include Judith McAra-Couper. In 2015, Jones was honored by the New Zealand Nurses Organisation's, with NZNO president Marion Guy saying that "Jones' contribution to nursing, and in particular perioperative nursing both nationally and internationally was "exemplary". Jones is an auditor for the Academic Quality Agency for New Zealand Universities (AQA). In the 2024 New Year Honours The 2024 New Year Honours are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Smythe
Elizabeth C. Smythe is a New Zealand midwifery and nursing academic, and is an emeritus professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Smythe's research focuses on hermeneutic phenomenology, which is the study of interpretive structures of experience, to improve healthcare experiences and clinical practice. Smythe led the introduction of the Doctor of Health Science programme at the university. She retired in 2022. Academic career Smythe trained as a nurse and a midwife, and then in 1998 completed a PhD titled ''Being safe in childbirth: a hermeneutic interpretation of the narratives of women and practitioners'' at Massey University, supervised by Cheryl Benn and Valerie Fleming. Smythe joined the faculty of the School of Clinical Sciences at Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor in 2013. Smythe's research focuses on using hermeneutic phenomenology to improve healthcare experiences. Smythe led the introduction of the midwifery degree in 1987, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health". Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, it has six regional offices and 150 field offices worldwide. The WHO was established on 7 April 1948. The first meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the agency's governing body, took place on 24 July of that year. The WHO incorporated the assets, personnel, and duties of the League of Nations' Health Organization and the , including the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Its work began in earnest in 1951 after a significant infusion of financial and technical resources. The WHO's mandate seeks and includes: working worldwide to promote health, keeping the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. It advocates that a billion more people should have: universal health care coverag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
