نتایج جستجو برای: maternal health services

تعداد نتایج: 1260628  

2012
Araya Medhanyie Mark Spigt Yohannes Kifle Nikki Schaay Yemane Berhane Peter Johnson

Title: The role of health extension workers in improving utilization of maternal health services in rural areas in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study First of all on behalf of all authors, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all reviewers for their time in reviewing our manuscript. We are really grateful for their constructive comments. We found them very helpful in enriching our m...

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: :The journal of family planning and reproductive health care 2016
Pranita Achyut Anurag Mishra Livia Montana Ranajit Sengupta Lisa M Calhoun Priya Nanda

BACKGROUND Maternal health (MH) services provide an invaluable opportunity to inform and educate women about family planning (FP). It is expected that this would enable women to choose an appropriate method and initiate contraception early in the postpartum period. In this study we examined interactions with health providers for MH services, and the effect of FP information provision during the...

2010
Eyob Zere Prosper Tumusiime Oladapo Walker Joses Kirigia Chris Mwikisa Thomas Mbeeli

BACKGROUND Inequities in the utilization of maternal health services impede progress towards the MDG 5 target of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015. In Namibia, despite increasing investments in the health sector, the maternal mortality ratio has increased from 271 per 100,000 live births in the period 1991-2000 to 449 per 100,000 live births in 1998-...

2015
Eric M. Mafuta Marjolein A. Dieleman Lisanne M. Hogema Paul N. Khomba François M. Zioko Patrick K. Kayembe Tjard de Cock Buning Thérèse N. M. Mambu

BACKGROUND The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with the highest maternal mortality ratio estimated at 846 deaths per 100,000 live births. Innovative strategies such as social accountability are needed to improve both health service delivery and utilization. Indeed, social accountability is a form of citizen engagement defined as the 'extent and cap...

2009
Sophie Witter Sam Adjei Margaret Armar-Klemesu Wendy Graham

BACKGROUND There is a growing movement, globally and in the Africa region, to reduce financial barriers to health care generally, but with particular emphasis on high priority services and vulnerable groups. OBJECTIVE This article reports on the experience of implementing a national policy to exempt women from paying for delivery care in public, mission and private health facilities in Ghana....

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...

2017
Benedict Oppong Asamoah Anette Agardh

OBJECTIVE To achieve universal coverage of reproductive healthcare and drastic reduction in maternal mortality, adequate attention and resources should be given to young women. This study therefore aimed to examine the inequality trends in the use of antenatal care (ANC) services and skilled birth attendance (SBA) within a subgroup of Ghanaian women aged 15-24 years between 2003 and 2014. DES...

2015
Por Ir Catherine Korachais Kannarath Chheng Dirk Horemans Wim Van Damme Bruno Meessen

BACKGROUND Increasing the coverage of skilled attendance at births in a health facility (facility delivery) is crucial for saving the lives of mothers and achieving Millennium Development Goal five. Cambodia has significantly increased the coverage of facility deliveries and reduced the maternal mortality ratio in the last decade. The introduction of a nationwide government implemented and fund...

Journal: :مجله سازمان نظام پزشکی جمهوری اسلامی ایران 0

background: women and children form two-thirds of the country's population and the health of mothers and children is effective in improving the health of the entire community. using the experience of successful countries in the world in this field, can improve maternal and child health indicators in iran. objective: the present study aimed to improve maternal and child health services mana...

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