The aim of the study was to explore the maternal health coping strategies of migrant women in Norway. The ethnic and cultural background of the Norwegian population have become increasingly diverse. A challenge in practice is to adjust maternal health services to migrant women's specific needs. Previous studies have revealed that migrant women have difficulty achieving safe pregnancies and chil...

Pakistan is a struggling economy with poor maternal and child health indicators that have affected attainment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 (under-five child and maternal mortality). Recent health reforms have abolished the federal Ministry of Health and devolved administrative and financial powers to the provinces. Ideally, devolution tends to simplify a healthcare...

This study examined the factors that influence the use of maternal healthcare services in Ethiopia and particularly assessed the use of antenatal and delivery-care services. Data for the study were drawn from the 2000 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was employed to explore the relative importance of a number of demographic and sociocultural vari...

PURPOSE Following legal reform in 2013, the annual number of asylum seekers entering South Korea has increased from 1,143 in 2012 to 5,711 in 2015. We interviewed six African refugee mothers of young children regarding their health needs and barriers to access maternal child health services. METHODS We recruited mothers who had visited a clinic for immigrants between July 2013 and August 2015...

BACKGROUND The study of severe maternal morbidity survivors (near miss) may be an alternative or a complement to the study of maternal death events as a health care indicator. However, there is still controversy regarding the criteria for identification of near-miss maternal morbidity. This study aimed to characterize the near miss maternal morbidity according to different sets of criteria. M...

Data from the past suggest that maternal deaths mostly occurred due to obstetric complications, like postpartum hemorrhage, sepsis or maternal morbidities, like eclampsia and cardiac diseases. This trend, however, has changed over a period of time in developing countries, like India where increasing number of maternal deaths have been attributed in recent years to preventable infectious causes,...

INTRODUCTION Australia is a land of cultural diversity. Cultural differences in maternity care may result in conflict between migrants and healthcare providers, especially when migrants have minimal English language knowledge. The aim of the study was to investigate Asian migrant women's child-birth experiences in a rural Australian context. METHOD The study consisted of semi-structured inter...

SS Bollapragada,a JD Norrie,b JE Normana a Division of Developmental Medicine, Maternal and Reproductive Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK bCentre for Healthcare Randomised Trials (CHaRT), Health Services Research Unit, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence: Dr SS Bollapragada, Division of Developmental Medicine, Maternal and Reproductive Medicine,...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Anaemia occurring during pregnancy is an important public health problem in developing countries. In India, anaemia is one of the most common causes of maternal death, accounting for 20% of total maternal deaths. This study was conducted with the aim of evaluating anaemia among booked antenatal mothers during the last trimester, its possible impact on pregnancy and its outcom...

background: iran has a high c-section rate (40.6% in 2005). the objective of this study was to assess the associations and population-attributable risks (par) of risk factors combinations and c-section in the southwest iran. methods: we performed a population-based cohort study using the reports provided by shiraz university of medical sciences. the cohort included pregnant women within septemb...