Antenatal and delivery care in rural western Kenya: the effect of training health care workers to provide "focused antenatal care"

Health Literacy, Antenatal Care Adequacy Indicator and Delivery Outcomes in Pregnant Women in Zahedan

Aims: Paying attention to the health of pregnant women leads to the newborn’s health and ultimately, the health of society. Health literacy and knowledge of antenatal care reduce neonatal and maternal fatality, increase maternal and neonatal health. The current research, therefore, aims to investigate the association of health literacy, antenatal care adequacy indicators, and delivery outcomes....

Quality Assessment Of Focused Antenatal Care Service Delivery In Tertiary Care Health Facility.

BACKGROUND Regardless of high maternal deaths in Pakistan, only 37% of pregnant women make four or more antenatal care visits during pregnancy. This proportion has further been diverged between urban and rural. About 62% of women visit clinics for WHO recommended sets of antenatal care (ANC) check-ups in urban as compared to 26% women in rural areas. This study was conducted with the aim to ass...

Barriers and facilitators to antenatal and delivery care in western Kenya: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND In western Kenya, maternal mortality is a major public health problem estimated at 730/100,000 live births, higher than the Kenyan national average of 488/100,000 women. Many women do not attend antenatal care (ANC) in the first trimester, half do not receive 4 ANC visits. A high proportion use traditional birth attendants (TBA) for delivery and 1 in five deliver unassisted. The pres...

Focused antenatal care in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Use of antenatal services and delivery care among women in rural western Kenya: a community based survey

BACKGROUND Improving maternal health is one of the UN Millennium Development Goals. We assessed provision and use of antenatal services and delivery care among women in rural Kenya to determine whether women were receiving appropriate care. METHODS Population-based cross-sectional survey among women who had recently delivered. RESULTS Of 635 participants, 90% visited the antenatal clinic (A...