| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,960,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥6,240,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,440,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Modernization of a society brings about the idea that reproduction should be controlled. But there are multiple ways toward modernization. China and Korea are good examples of "compressed modernity" where rapid institutionalization and medicalization of birth have occurred in a very short period of time. Meanwhile South Asian countries such as Indonesia and Laos show a different path where a movement from home to hospital is relatively slow. In the latter regions a wide range of birth rituals are still practiced.
Based on the observation and the research data, it is hypothesized that factors encouraging medicalization of birth are the underuse of midwifery skills accompanied by weak midwifery organization as a professional body, and less attention to women's decision -making ability. The effect of medicine on women's health can be ambivalent, as it saves life of mother and baby by way of cesarean section, while its overuse can be harmful to women's health.
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