Obstetric care navigation: a new approach to promote respectful maternity care and overcome barriers to safe motherhood
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Obstetric care navigation: a new approach to promote respectful maternity care and overcome barriers to safe motherhood
BACKGROUND Disrespectful and abusive maternity care is a common and pervasive problem that disproportionately impacts marginalized women. By making mothers less likely to agree to facility-based delivery, it contributes to the unacceptably high rates of maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Few programmatic approaches have been proposed to address disrespectful and abusive mat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Reproductive Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1742-4755
DOI: 10.1186/s12978-017-0410-6