Maternity Care in Rural Areas By Public Health Nurses

Private and public health care in rural areas of Uganda

BACKGROUND In many low and middle income countries, the private sector is increasingly becoming an important source of health care, filling gaps where no or little public health care is available. However, knowledge on the private sector providers is limited The objective of this study was to determine the type and number of different types of health care providers, and the quality, cost and ut...

Monitoring and Assisting Maternity-Infant Care in Rural Areas (MAMICare)

Presented is the project called MAMICare, which is motivated by the alarming number of maternity and infant deaths in rural areas due mainly to a poor monitoring of pregnancy progress and lack of appropriate alerting mechanism in case of abnormal gestation evolution. This work proposes an information technology solution based on mobile devices, and health sensors such as ECG (electrocardiogram)...

Health care reform in rural areas.

Maternity Care In Rural Florida

Background: This cross-sectional study was designed to explore the impact of the availability of maternity care services on the int~Ult mortality rates in nonmetropolitan (rural) counties in Florida. Methods: We evaluated the sufficiency of physicians providing maternity care in each rural county. We then constructed a mathematical model to compare physician availability with the infant mortali...

Respectful maternity care in Ethiopian public health facilities

BACKGROUND Disrespect and abuse of women during institutional childbirth services is one of the deterrents to utilization of maternity care services in Ethiopia and other low- and middle-income countries. This paper describes the prevalence of respectful maternity care (RMC) and mistreatment of women in hospitals and health centers, and identifies factors associated with occurrence of RMC and m...