نتایج جستجو برای: prenatal care services

تعداد نتایج: 879413  

2014
Michael K Mwaniki Sonali Vaid Isaac Mwamuye Chome Dorcas Amolo Youssef Tawfik

BACKGROUND Health-related millennium development goals are off track in most of the countries in the sub-Saharan African region. Lack of access to, and low utilization of essential services and high-impact interventions, together with poor quality of health services, may be partially responsible for this lack of progress. We explored whether improvement approaches can be applied to increase uti...

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...

2015
Tulsi Ram Bhandari Prabhakaran Sankara Sarma Vellappillil Raman Kutty

BACKGROUND Despite a decade-long armed conflict in Nepal, the country made progress in reducing maternal mortality and is on its way to achieve the Millennium Development Goal Five. This study aimed to assess the degree of the utilization of maternal health care services during and after the armed conflict in Nepal. METHODS This study is based on Nepal Demographic and Health Survey data 2006 ...

Journal: :Family medicine 2003
Margaret Helton Bron Skinner Clark Denniston

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There has been a significant reduction in the number of family physicians who provide pregnancy care. This study examines the effects of an educational intervention at a university-based family practice residency. The intervention was designed to increase the number of graduates who include prenatal care or deliveries in their practices. METHODS The curriculum in pre...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2002
K Navaneetham A Dharmalingam

This paper examines the patterns and determinants of maternal health care utilization across different social settings in South India: in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) carried out during 1992-93 across most states in India are used. Results show that utilization of maternal health care services is highest in Ke...

2016
Duong Thi Thuy Doan Ha Thi Thu Bui Thi Minh Le Duc Minh Duong Hong Thi Luu Tuan Anh Dinh Tolib Mirzoev

INTRODUCTION Since 2011, the Vietnam's Ministry of Health implemented the ethnic minority midwives (EMMs) scheme in order to increase the utilization of maternal health services by women from ethnic minorities and those living in hard-to-reach mountainous areas. This paper analyzes the utilization of antenatal, delivery, and postpartum care provided by EMMs and reports the key determinants of u...

Journal: :Reproductive health matters 2002
Joan Kaufman Fang Jing

China's rural health care system has undergone major changes since the early 1980s, when the country began privatising rural health services. Following fiscal devolution, the rural primary health service was transformed into a fee-for-service system, dependent on the availability of local resources. This article reports some of the results of a study undertaken in 1994-96 to examine the impact ...

2013
Nkechi S Owoo Monica P Lambon-Quayefio

The study explores the importance of social influence and the availability of health insurance on maternal care utilization in Ghana through the use of antenatal care services. A number of studies have found that access to health insurance plays a critical role in women's decision to utilize antenatal care services. However, little is known about the role that social forces play in this decisio...

2017
William Cherniak Geoffrey Anguyo Christopher Meaney Ling Yuan Kong Isabelle Malhame Romina Pace Sumeet Sodhi Michael Silverman

In rural Uganda pregnant women often lack access to health services, do not attend antenatal care, and tend to utilize traditional healers/birth attendants. We hypothesized that receiving a message advertising that "you will be able to see your baby by ultrasound" would motivate rural Ugandan women who otherwise might use a traditional birth attendant to attend antenatal care, and that those wo...

2013
I.L. Nwaeze O.O. Enabor T.A.O. Oluwasola C.O. Aimakhu

BACKGROUND Antenatal care is an important health service which detects and sometimes reduces the risk of complications among pregnant women. The quality of care is likely to influence effective utilization and compliance with interventions. OBJECTIVES This study evaluated clients' perception of antenatal care quality at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan and determined levels of cl...

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