Background: This study aims to describe the community perceptions regarding an insecticide-treated bed net (ITN) programme in Burkina Faso, where communities were randomised to either ITN social marketing combined with free ITN distribution through antenatal care services (intervention A) or ITN social marketing only (intervention B). Methods: For this descriptive qualitative study data were co...

prenatal Care is a series oF assessments and interventions For pregnant women, to help ensure healthy pregnancies and birth outcomes, and to prevent any potential adverse health outcomes to mothers and their babies. The three basic components of prenatal care have been defined as 1) early and continuing risk assessment, 2) health promotion, and 3) medical and psychosocial intervention and follo...

BACKGROUND A community-based randomized control prenatal care trial was performed in a rural county of China during 2000-2003. The purpose of this paper is to describe the trial implementation and the impact of the trial on the utilization of prenatal care and perinatal outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS In the study county, 10 townships (from a total of 55) were each paired with a control (20 s...

Introduction Well-child care is a core service of primary care with the overall goal of promoting the physical health, cognitive growth, and emotional well-being of children. Leaders in child health care recommend that to achieve this goal, primary care physicians use a parent-centered approach, with a focus on the parent–child relationship in the context of family, culture, and community. To m...

OBJECTIVE To compile a proposal of the system of taking complex prenatal, perinatal and postnatal care of pregnant women and their children in the Czech Republic with taking into account medical and salutogenic approaches. MATERIAL AND METHODS A questionnaire was prepared comprising questions for mothers and making it possible to exactly use specified data from their healthcare documentation....

there is an increased prevalence of maternal substance abuse during pregnancy in younger women in all socioeconomic classes and races. our aim was to determine the prevalence and correlates of self-reported substance abuse among pregnant women and obstetric complications or neonatal outcomes in iran. this retrospective cohort study is covering a five year period on medical records of pregnant w...

a survey was conducted to correlate the out come in first pregnancies of different age groups attending a selected teaching hospital in kerman for delivery during 1993.   a total of 390 primigravida women took part in this study. 150 in each age group of below 20 and 20-29 years and 90 women in the age group of 30 or above.   for data collection a check list and questionnaire consisting of two ...