BACKGROUND Antenatal care has a positive effect on pregnancy, both clinically and psychologically, but consensus about the optimal number of antenatal visits is lacking. This study aims to provide insight into the dynamics of the number of antenatal visits a woman receives. Independent effects of predisposing, enabling and pregnancy-related determinants are examined. METHODS Women were recrui...

BACKGROUND Antenatal care is named as one of the four pillars initiatives of the Safe Motherhood Initiative. While many of routine antenatal care procedure have little effect on maternal mortality and morbidity, some of these have been ascertained as beneficial. The aim of this study was to investigate coverage of antenatal care and identify factors associated with inadequacy of antenatal care ...

BACKGROUND After more than three years of violence in Syria, Lebanon hosts over one million Syrian refugees creating significant public health concerns. Antenatal care delivery to tens of thousands of pregnant Syrian refugee women is critical to preventing maternal and fetal mortality but is not well characterized given the multiple factors obtaining health data in a displaced population. This ...

Consensus statements have concluded that there is Level 1, Grade A evidence that Pelvic Floor Muscle Treatment (PFMT) is significantly more effective thanno treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and mixed incontinence [1-3]. Reviews on PFMT in long term treatment of urinary incontinence (UI) report inconsistent results and there seems to be some doubt about the effect [1,4]. This may ...

background: maternal health care utilization continues to focus on the agenda of health care planners around the world, with high attention being paid to the developing countries. the devastating effect of maternal death at birth on the affected families is untold. this study examines the utilization of obstetric care in the democratic republic of congo. we have used the nationally representati...

BACKGROUND Improving utilization of antenatal care is a critical strategy for achieving China's Millennium Development Goal of decreasing the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). While overall utilization has increased recently in China, an urban vs. rural disparity in access remains. Here we aim to assess utilization of antenatal care in rural-to-urban migrant women and identify its risk and protec...

Antenatal care in the 1990s has six functions (box). The first two are the same as any performed in an outpatient clinic (treatment of symptoms); the second two relate to multiphasic screening of which antenatal care was an early example; and the third pair are part of health education. Antenatal care in the United Kingdom is performed by a range of professionals-midwives, general practitioners...

A four month intensive training programme of the Growth Assessment Protocol was implemented across 3 North of England regions in 2015, with the help of designated clinical midwives seconded for the duration of the project. The intervention resulted in significant increases in antenatal referral and detection of babies born small for gestational age. During the same period, the stillbirth rates ...

INTRODUCTION Health workers at the primary level are well positioned to provide health information and counselling on child feeding to mothers on antenatal visits. The study was designed to evaluate the effect of training on the knowledge, attitudes and provision of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) information and counselling among primary healthcare (PHC) workers. METHODS A two-stage cl...