Husband Involvement in Safe Motherhood Services among Married Women of Bharatpur Sub Metropolitan City, Chitwan

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Cervical Cancer Screening Among Women Attending a Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur, Chitwan

Objective: To find out the knowledge, attitude and practice regarding cervical cancer screening among women. Materials and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used to collect data from 96 women. Each woman was selected alternately from Gynae Out-Patient Department of Teaching Hospital. Data was collected by using semi-structured interview schedule to find out knowledge and p...

Utilization of Health Services for Gynaecological Morbidity among Married Women

Motherhood in childhood: addressing reproductive health hazards among adolescent married women in India

BACKGROUND In India, due to the high prevalence of child marriage, most adolescent pregnancies occur within marriage. Pregnancy and childbirth complications are among the leading causes of death in girls aged 15 to 19 years. Hence, adolescent pregnancy is a serious health threat to young women in India. METHODS The study focuses on the level and trends of adolescent pregnancy rate (per thousa...

Case Study: Benefit Incidence of Safe Motherhood Services in Vietnam

As one of the countries that has agreed to participate as a pilot country for the World Bank’s Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) approach, the Government of Vietnam has designated health as one of the key sectors for CDF emphasis and has set up an overall CDF coordination team including the Ministers of Finance and Planning/Investment, the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam a...

Safe motherhood voucher programme coverage of health facility deliveries among poor women in South-western Uganda

There has been increased interest in and experimentation with demand-side mechanisms such as the use of vouchers that place purchasing power in the hands of targeted consumers to improve the uptake of healthcare services in low-income settings. A key measure of the success of such interventions is the extent to which the programmes have succeeded in reaching the target populations. This article...