Public Health Midwives as a Family Health Care Worker to Promote Vaginal Health: Evidence from a Community Study in Sri Lanka

摘要

Sri Lanka is a lower middle income country where the public health care is provided free of charge and is delivered through curative and preventive health services (1). The Public Health Midwives (PHMs) is the grass root level health care worker in the healthcare system of Sri Lanka (2). PHMs are recognized by the public as caring and skilled professionals (3) which is not only focusing on midwifery, but preventive health covering many other aspects (2).