Overweight and obese women are at a higher risk of pregnancy complications with obesity contributing to increased morbidity and mortality of the mother. Several studies have evaluated barriers to routine health care services, with obese parturients perceiving their weight to be a barrier to obtaining appropriate care. There is limited data available assessing the adequacy of prenatal care in this population. Our study demonstrated that obesity was actually associated with an increased adequacy of prenatal care. The presence of comorbidities did not explain this improvement in prenatal care.
The eighteenth-century playhouse stage was a crucial site for the dissemination of Irish song, and this was especially so in the case of the theatrical works of Irish actor, dramatist, and songwriter John O’Keeffe (1747–1833), in which Irish song was a notable feature. This chapter considers the emergence of ballad opera, particularly in relation to its use of traditional song, and the use of Irish theatrical song as entr’acte entertainment and musical number on Dublin and London stages. In its closing section, the chapter turns to O’Keeffe’s first main-piece comic opera The Castle of Andalusia (1782) as a case study to evaluate how he not only disseminated Irish song via the playhouse stage but also demonstrated an empowered Irish cultural identity by challenging musical hierarchies and presenting a degree of musical equality between different kinds of cultural tradition within English comic opera.
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