Schäfers, Rainhild, Prof. Dr.
Certified midwife and graduated health care manager. Worked as a midwife for 21 Years. Doctoral thesis: Self-Rated Health (SRH) and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in women after childbirth. Since 2011 Professor of Midwifery Science at the Hochschule für Gesundheit-University of Applied Sciences in Bochum.
Main research topics: System-immanent factors (e.g. birth room design, time of the day, hospital level) as a trigger to medical interventions during childbirth/ Women’s Health/ Human Rights in Childbirth.
Coordinator of the German Guideline Vaginal Birth at Term/ Member of the German Federal Expert Group Perinatal Medicine/ Advisory Board Member of the Society for Quality in Out-of-Hospital Obstetrics/ Former chair of the German Society of Midwifery Sciences
Hochschule für Gesundheit – University of Applied Sciences
Gesundheitscampus 6 – 8 · 44801 Bochum
Germany
Email Rainhild.Schaefers@hs-gesundheit.de
Phone +4923477727658
Research keywords: be-up, birth environment