OBJECTIVE To determine the impact that a 6-year maternal and child health project in rural Honduras had on maternal health services and outcomes, and to test the effect of level of father involvement on maternal health. METHODS This was a program evaluation conducted through representative household surveys administered at baseline in 2007 and endline in 2011 using 30 cluster samples randomly...

Afghanistan's maternal and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world. The country faces challenges to meet the Millennium Development Goals set for 2015 which can be attributed to multiple causes related to accessibility, affordability and availability of health-care services. This report addresses the challenges in strengthening maternal and child health care in Afghanistan, as ...

With funding from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Reproductive Health (DRH) and the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) and CityMatCH have formed a Women’s Health Partnership to build state and local capacity to promote safe motherhood and enhance women’s...

In recent years, much focus has been placed on maternal and child health. The World Health Organization’s theme for this year’s World Health Report is healthy mothers and children. Maternal and child health also figure prominently in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), through which significant gains are expected from developing countries by the year 2015 in areas such as infant malnutriti...

In this article we examine whether measures of gender equality, household decision making, and attitudes toward gender-based violence are associated with maternal and child health outcomes in Africa. We pooled Demographic and Health Surveys data from eight African countries and used multilevel logistic regression on two maternal health outcomes (low body mass index and facility delivery) and tw...

BACKGROUND Inequality in maternal and child health seriously hinders the overall improvement of health, which is a concern in both the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Healthy China 2030. However, research on the equality of maternal and child health is scarce. This study longitudinally assessed the equality trends in China's maternal and child health outcomes from 2000 t...