OBJECTIVE To understand the knowledge and services of informal providers and to explore their role in addressing the human resource gap in Uttar Pradesh, India, within the context of maternal health. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study is exploratory in nature, conducted in four blocks of four districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 114 informal pro...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of obstetric danger signs and adequate birth preparedness (BP) are critical for improving maternal services utilization. OBJECTIVES This study assessed the effect of a participatory multi-sectoral maternal and newborn intervention on BP and knowledge of obstetric danger signs among women in Eastern Uganda. METHODS The Maternal and Neonatal Implementation for Equitable S...

microchimerism is explained as the simultaneous presence of a few foreign cells with different genetic origins of different individuals in a person. transfer of these cells through blood transfusion, organ transplantation and particularly the mutual transfer of cells between the mother and fetus during pregnancy is possible. this article is an overview of the role of fetal cell microchimerism i...

Eunsil Oh [email protected] Abstract Although more women are working in almost all postindustrial societies, negative views of mothers who work when their children are young remain largely uncontested, especially amongst the better educated. Koreans offer a particularly useful case study because they have the highest educational levels in the world, but highly educated women are underemp...

BACKGROUND Fetal sex and maternal age are each known to affect outcomes of pregnancies. The objective of the present study was to investigate the influence of the combination of maternal age and fetal sex on pregnancy outcomes in term and post-term singleton pregnancies. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a retrospective study on term singleton pregnancies delivered between 2004 and 2008 at the Ch...

Strategic priority setting and implementation of strategies to reduce maternal mortality are key to the post Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 2015 agenda. This article highlights the feasibility and the advantages of using a systematized tacit knowledge approach, using data from maternal health program personnel, to identify local challenges to implementing policies and programs to inform the ...