Disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility delivery in Tanzania: a facility and community survey

Characteristics Influence Facility Delivery in Rufiji , Tanzania

Service providers’ experiences of disrespectful and abusive behavior towards women during facility based childbirth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BACKGROUND Disrespect and abuse (D&A) of women during childbirth by the attending staff in health facilities has been widely reported in many countries. Although D&A in labor rooms is recognized as a deterrent to maternal health service utilization, approaches to defining, classifying, and measuring D&A are still at an early stage of development. This study aims to enhance understanding of serv...

Community and health system factors associated with facility delivery in rural Tanzania: a multilevel analysis.

OBJECTIVES Tanzania, a country with high maternal mortality, has many primary health facilities yet has a low rate of facility deliveries. This study estimated the contribution of individual and community factors in explaining variation in the use of health facilities for childbirth in rural Tanzania. METHODS A two-stage cluster population-based survey was conducted in Kasulu District, wester...

Female migrants, family members and community socio-demographic characteristics influence facility delivery in Rufiji, Tanzania

BACKGROUND Health professionals and public health experts in maternal and newborn health encourage women to deliver at health facilities in an effort to reduce maternal and newborn mortality. In the existing literature, there is scant information on how migration, family members and community influence facility delivery. This study addresses this knowledge gap using 10 years of longitudinal sur...

Trends in antenatal care attendance and health facility delivery following community and health facility systems strengthening interventions in Northern Uganda

BACKGROUND Maternal morbidity and mortality remains high in Uganda; largely due to inadequate antenatal care (ANC), low skilled deliveries and poor quality of other maternal health services. In order to address both the demand and quality of ANC and skilled deliveries, we introduced community mobilization and health facility capacity strengthening interventions. METHODS Interventions were int...