نتایج جستجو برای: maternal health care

تعداد نتایج: 1419505  

2017
Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho Rornald Muhumuza Kananura Moses Tetui Gertrude Namazzi Aloysius Mutebi Asha George Ligia Paina Peter Waiswa Ahmed Bumba Godfrey Mulekwa Dinah Nakiganda-Busiku Moses Lyagoba Harriet Naiga Mary Putan Agatha Kulwenza Judith Ajeani Ayub Kakaire-Kirunda Fred Makumbi Lynn Atuyambe Olico Okui Suzanne Namusoke Kiwanuka

BACKGROUND The MANIFEST study in eastern Uganda employed a participatory multisectoral approach to reduce barriers to access to maternal and newborn care services. OBJECTIVES This study analyses the effect of the intervention on the utilization of maternal and newborn services and care practices. METHODS The quasi-experimental pre- and post-comparison design had two main components: communi...

2018
Kennedy Machira Martin Palamuleni

Despite promotion by many stakeholders to improve maternal health outcome in many developing countries including Malawi, many analysts agree that the utmost success in maternal health will arise if maternal health care services are an unparallel led source for women's health care solutions for any problem related to childbirth. Health advocates worldwide claim that even though maternal services...

Journal: :JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 2002
S Safdar S N B Inam A Omair S T Ahmed

OBJECTIVE The need for effective strategies for delivery of healthcare to rural women is paramount and requires a study of maternal perceptions and experiences of the healthcare system. METHOD This article describes knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding obstetric healthcare in a rural area of Pakistan. This is a cross sectional survey of a rural area of district Hyderabad, Pakistan. A ...

2014
Donmozoun Télesphore Somé Issiaka Sombie Nicolas Meda

INTRODUCTION Skilled attendance is one of the major strategies to curtail maternal mortality, specifically in developing countries. Despite the low level of equipment, it is only in health facilities that skilled care are provided during pregnancy and childbirth; but there are some barriers which prevent women to use health facilities for good care. METHODS This study was carried out in Ouarg...

Journal: :Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health 2008
Lindsey Ann Lubbock Rob B Stephenson

OBJECTIVES To better understand the individual and community factors and perceptions that influence women's health care-seeking behaviors during pregnancy in order to increase women's utilization of maternal health services. METHODS This study investigates the logistical and sociocultural barriers influencing women's utilization of maternal health services through 37 semi-structured in-depth ...

2017
Mohamad I. Brooks Hasbullah Thabrany Matthew P. Fox Veronika J. Wirtz Frank G. Feeley Lora L. Sabin

BACKGROUND The growing momentum for quality and affordable health care for all has given rise to the recent global universal health coverage (UHC) movement. As part of Indonesia's strategy to achieve the goal of UHC, large investments have been made to increase health access for the poor, resulting in the implementation of various health insurance schemes targeted towards the poor and near-poor...

Journal: :Journal of public health policy 2004
Jerker Liljestrand Indra Pathmanathan

Developing countries are floundering in their efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75% by 2015. Two issues are being debated. Is it doable within this time frame? And is it affordable? Malaysia and Sri Lanka have in the past 50 years repeatedly halved their maternal mortality ratio (MMR) every 7-10 years to reduce MMR from over 500 to below 50. Exper...

2015
Gideon Rutaremwa Stephen Ojiambo Wandera Tapiwa Jhamba Edith Akiror Angela Kiconco

BACKGROUND Uganda's poor maternal health indicators have resulted from weak maternal health services delivery, including access to quality family planning, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care, and postnatal care for mothers and newborns. This paper investigated the predictors of maternal health services (MHS) utilization characterized as: desirable, moderate and undesirable. ME...

2013
Linda Sanneving Asli Kulane Aditi Iyer Bengt Ahgren

INTRODUCTION The Government of Gujarat has for the past couple of decades continuously initiated several interventions to improve access to care for pregnant and delivering women within the state. Data from the last District Family Heath survey in Gujarat in 2007-2008 show that 56.4% of women had institutional deliveries and 71.5% had at least one antenatal check-up, indicating that challenges ...

2018
Prosper Niyongabo Renate Douwes Marjolein Dieleman Frédéric Irambona Jimmy Mategeko Georges Nsengiyumva Tjard De Cock Buning

BACKGROUND Increased availability of maternal health services alone does not lead to better outcomes for maternal health.The services need to be utilized first.One way to increase service utilization is to plan responsive health care services by taking into account the community's views or expressed needs. Burundi has a high maternal mortality ratio, and despite improvements in health infrastru...

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