This is about the matter: Violent marketing: Consumer lawyer Thomas Iversen defends against how commercial players marketers marketed unassisted home births. He emphasizes how important it is to communicate the risks clearly, and thinks it is misunderstood to make the impression that hospital births are dangerous. Risk: The article emphasizes that the governing powers mean birth without health professionals posing significant risk, and it is important that women who are well -born are fully aware of these risks. Disinformation: The Midwife Association and other actors are concerned about disinformation that is spread specifically through social media. Such misinformation can lead to dangerous situations. The role of the double: Although doulas provided emotional and practical support, they are not qualified as a health professionals and cannot replace a midwife. It is important that the doulane is clear about their competence and not gave the impression of having medical expertise they do not have, he says. Legal consequences: Law professor Anne Kjersti Befring emphasizes that persons who are not authorized health professionals, but who assist during births, may be held legally responsible if complications occur. The practice is assessed under the Act on Alternative Treatment. Need for clearer legislation: The Norwegian Board of Health wishes a clear definition in the legislation on what can be regarded as “serious illness” in connection with births, and how to use alternative treatment. The article shows the need for clear guidelines and regulations for the practice of unassisted home births and encourages caution both in the marketing of such services and in Vala women do in connection with birth. The summary is created by a Ki-service and checked by news’s journalists afterwards. In Norway, last year, 21 women gave birth to planned at home without the help of authorized health professionals. It shows figures from the Medical Birth Register. On social media, both in Norway and internationally, a large network encourages women to give birth to home without the presence of health professionals. During such births, it is common to bring a person who is mental support before, during and after birth. It is called a doula. A doula should provide emotional, physical and practical support during childbirth, but is not a health care provider. Consumer lawyer Thomas Iversen, who works with the Consumer Council, generally reacts in the way more of these women market the services of their services. Thomas Iversen consumer lawyer, the Consumer Council – the risks of home births must not be under -communicated in either marketing or other information. The detrimental network has previously told news that they do not trust health professionals, and that women who want to give birth without them must be allowed to do so. Iversen thinks everyone who speaks for the free time must be open to the fact that there is also a risk associated with these. – It will be wild marketing if the information gives the impression that hospital births is dangerous. The Midwife Association also warns against information shared in social media. Hanne Charlotte Schjelderup – Disinformation is an increasing problem, and in the health field, disinformation is direct life -threatening. She notes that birth influeners have seen a commercial opportunity they now offer pregnant women in the light of cuts in Norwegian birth care. – Disinformation is scattered as an fire in dry grass in social media, in study circles and consultations pregnant women pay many tens of thousands. It has not been closed to news to get a comment on this from the Norwegian Doula Association. Will not reject unassisted home births Most doulas are part of the Norwegian Doula Association. This association says they have members who recommend and implement planned unassisted home births. So births without health professionals are born. – We at the Norwegian Doula association recommend no one to plan a birth without health professionals. One birth is linked to risk, and there is no doubt that it is best to bring a competent midwife, says Kristina Moe-Hellman, board leader in the association. – We recognize that it is challenging if anyone without medical expertise is on unassisted births, that it can provide false security, she says. Consumer lawyer Thomas Iversen says there are examples where Doula has highlighted their treatment services as better than the ordinary health offer. – It is important that those who offer such services are open about their competence and how it ends. The providers must not give the impression of having professional expertise they do not have. He says the same will apply if the information plays on lack of knowledge or uncertainty. Midwife As a title in Norway, the midwife is a protected title. The finest doulas both nationally and internationally use the title of Midwife. Iversen thinks it is a misleading title. – Some service provisions are not a midwife, it will be wild to call themselves “Midwife” or in other ways give the impression of having a professional expertise that one does not have. In the UK, Midwife is a protected title. Iversen says one cannot translate the title into another language. – The midwife is a protected title, and it will be illegal to give the impression of being a midwife without having the necessary education and certification. Can be prosecuted law professor Anne Kjersti Befring says persons who are not health professionals and help with home births ask a criminal liability to help during an unassisted home birth if complications occur. Anne Kjersti Befring Law Professor in Health Court at the University of Oslo. – As long as they offer maternity care without Anna Birth Aid being present, it must be assessed on the basis of the Act on Alternative Treatment, says law professor Anne Kjersti Befring. She is one of the Nordic region’s leading lawyers in health law, and talks about birth lawyers without medical expertise, known as doulas. According to Kristina Moe-Hellman, chairman of the Norwegian Doulaf Association (NDF), the members write down medical liability during birth by entering into contracts with the birth women before birth. Website for the Norwegian Double Association. Facsimile: The Norwegian Double Association – We do not have any standard template as a standard, but it should always be clear that one who doubles cannot replace health professionals or take on enough form of medical responsibility, says Hellmann. – Must be considered as alternative treatment Befring believes that Doulaer’s practice falls under the Act on Alternative Treatment, because births are considered “treatment” in accordance with the law. The law is required to prevent serious health risks, which also debt double when qualified health professionals are not present by complications. – If there is an authorized midwife present, and it is clear that they do not contribute in birth, the responsibility will primarily lie with the midwife, she says. The law, which replaces the Quack Salvar Act in 2003, to allow alternative treatment with certain minimum patient safety requirements. If the risk of woman and the child is high, both the criminal law and the laws of the law can be used. What does the Act on Alternative Treatment contain Alternative The Treatment Act is a Norwegian law that regulates health-related treatments that lie outside the general treatment offering to the health and care service, and which is not part of the medical science’s knowledge-based methods. The law further states that some forms of therapy should only be performed by authorized health professionals in line with approved practices. This also applies to the treatment of general infectious diseases and severe diseases. The reason for the new Act on Alternative Treatment in 2004 was a growing demand for, and a more commercial offer of various forms of treatment outside the ordinary health service in Norway. The 2004 Act replaced what was previously called the “Quacco Act”. The purpose of regulating so -called alternative treatments – a form of treatment that was otherwise not prohibited to seek or to offer – was to increase the safety of patients and to provide some minimum requirements. The law contains, among other things, rules on confidentiality, use of various titles and marketing. Intentionally or grossly negligent violation of the law is punishable by fines or imprisonment for up to three months. In particularly aggravating circumstances, the sentence can be increased to up to two years in prison. Source: Lovdata.no This applies in the case that it is not a midwife or other qualified health professionals to be present when the complication occurs. A midwife must be overhauled, she says. Both VG and Aftenposten earlier this year have looked at the legal around unassisted home births. Want clearer legislation Health Inspectorate Meiner Doulaer can be punishable by the Act on Alternative Treatment and wants a clarification of the legislation, especially around the abuse “Serious illness” and how the debt and childbirth debt. – Some of the closer regulations in the law refer to “serious illness”, and it can be clearly clear and when this may include pregnancy and downside, says Sjur Lehmann, director of the Norwegian Health Authority. Director of the State Health Authority, Sjur Lehmann, believes that the legislation should be clearer. Photo: Morten Andersen / news The Ministry of Health and Care Services confirms that it may result in criminal liability for double in the case where complications occur without the necessary health personnel, says State Secretary Karl Kristian Bekeng. – It can result in criminal liability if the relatives or alternative does not treat the necessary assistance from health professionals. Published 02.05.2025, at. 21.09
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