نتایج جستجو برای: maternal

تعداد نتایج: 104168  

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2003
Robert Mswia Mary Lewanga Candida Moshiro David Whiting Lara Wolfson Yusuf Hemed K G M M Alberti Henry Kitange Deo Mtasiwa Philip Setel

OBJECTIVE To examine the progress made towards the Safe Motherhood Initiative goals in three areas of the United Republic of Tanzania during the 1990s. METHODS Maternal mortality in the United Republic of Tanzania was monitored by sentinel demographic surveillance of more than 77,000 women of reproductive age, and by prospective monitoring of mortality in the following locations; an urban sit...

2015
Patience A. Afulani

BACKGROUND Approximately 800 women die of pregnancy-related complications every day. Over half of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Most maternal deaths can be prevented with high quality maternal health services. It is well established that use of maternal health services vary by place of residence and socioeconomic status (SES), but few studies have examined the determinants of ...

Journal: :International perspectives on sexual and reproductive health 2013
Vanessa K Dalton Xiao Xu Patricia Mullan Kwabena A Danso Yao Kwawukume Kofi Gyan Timothy R B Johnson

Maternal mortality remains a huge problem in the developing world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa.1 According to the World Health Organization, efforts intended to decrease maternal deaths need to recognize and address unsafe abortions as a significant contributor to the high rates of maternal mortality found in developing countries.2,3 In Africa, where abortions are highly restricted, 680 wo...

2017
Asm Shahabuddin Christiana Nöstlinger Thérèse Delvaux Malabika Sarker Alexandre Delamou Azucena Bardají Jacqueline E. W. Broerse Vincent De Brouwere

BACKGROUND The huge proportion of child marriage contributes to high rates of pregnancies among adolescent girls in Bangladesh. Despite substantial progress in reducing maternal mortality in the last two decades, the rate of adolescent pregnancy remains high. The use of skilled maternal health services is still low in Bangladesh. Several quantitative studies described the use of skilled materna...

2009
Kranti S. Vora Dileep V. Mavalankar K.V. Ramani Mudita Upadhyaya Bharati Sharma Sharad Iyengar Vikram Gupta Kirti Iyengar

Since the beginning of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, India has accounted for at least a quarter of maternal deaths reported globally. India's goal is to lower maternal mortality to less than 100 per 100,000 livebirths but that is still far away despite its programmatic efforts and rapid economic progress over the past two decades. Geographical vastness and sociocultural diversity mean that ma...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2012
Dale Huntington Eduardo Banzon Zenaida Dy Recidoro

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of health-system-wide improvements on maternal health outcomes in the Philippines. METHODS A retrospective longitudinal controlled study was used to compare a province that fast tracked the implementation of health system reforms with other provinces in the same region that introduced reforms less systematically and intensively between 2006 and 2009. FINDINGS...

2009
P. Padmanaban Parvathy Sankara Raman Dileep V. Mavalankar

Although India has made slow progress in reducing maternal mortality, progress in Tamil Nadu has been rapid. This case study documents how Tamil Nadu has taken initiatives to improve maternal health services leading to reduction in maternal morality from 380 in 1993 to 90 in 2007. Various initiatives include establishment of maternal death registration and audit, establishment and certification...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2009
Katherine C Teela Luke C Mullany Catherine I Lee Eh Poh Palae Paw Nicole Masenior Cynthia Maung Chris Beyrer Thomas J Lee

In settings where active conflict, resource scarcity, and logistical constraints prevail, provision of maternal health services within health centers and hospitals is unfeasible and alternative community-based strategies are needed. In eastern Burma, such conditions necessitated implementation of the "Mobile Obstetric Maternal Health Worker" (MOM) project, which has employed a community-based a...

Journal: :Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P 2010
Ana Cristina da Nóbrega Marinho Neir Antunes Paes

Maternal mortality has been established as one of the priority problems of public health, directly affecting women in the pregnant puerperal cycle and belonging to underprivileged social classes. Considering this situation, the aim of the present study was to identify associations between the race of women living in the state of Paraíba and age, educational level and type of death of women who ...

2017
Xiaojing Fan Zhongliang Zhou Shaonong Dang Yongjian Xu Jianmin Gao Zhiying Zhou Min Su Dan Wang Gang Chen

BACKGROUND Prenatal and postnatal visits are two effective interventions for protection and promotion of maternal health by reducing maternal mortality and improving the quality of birth. There is limited nationally representative data regarding the changes of prenatal and postnatal visits since the latest health system reform initiated in 2009 in Shaanxi, China. The aim of this study was to ex...

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