Introduction With a high maternal mortality ratio (of 212 per 100000 live births), provision of quality maternal healthcare services has remained a challenge in India. In 2005, government of India launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to improve healthcare services and health status of population in rural India with a focus on maternal and child health. In this paper we compared fin...

BACKGROUND Indonesia still faces challenges in maternal health. Specifically, the lack of information on community-level maternal morbidity. The relatively high maternal healthcare non-utilization in Indonesia intensifies this problem. OBJECTIVE To describe the burden of community-level maternal morbidity in Indonesia. Additionally, to evaluate the extent and determinants of missed opportunit...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This paper focuses on the inadequate attention on women's non-maternal healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. The study assessed the purchase of and financial access to non-maternal healthcare. It also scoped for mainstreaming household financial resources in this regard to suggest for alternatives. METHODS A household survey through multi-stage stratified s...

BACKGROUND Globally, there are increasing efforts to improve maternal health outcomes including the reduction in maternal mortality rates. Improved access to skilled care utilisation during pregnancy and delivery has been one of the strategies employed to improve maternal health outcomes. In Kenya, more than half of the women deliver without the assistance of a skilled attendant and this has co...

BACKGROUND An understanding of the predictive effect of socioeconomic characteristics (SECs) of women on maternal healthcare service utilisation is essential in order to maximise maternal health benefits and outcomes for the newborn. OBJECTIVES To describe how SECs of women contribute to their exclusion from maternal health benefits in Abuja Municipal Areas Council (AMAC) in Abuja, Nigeria. ...

background & aim: maternal satisfaction of health services is an inherent element of healthcare policies, and quality of midwifery care essentially influences this parameter. this study aimed to evaluate maternal satisfaction of postpartum care and its association with midwifery care at the urban health centers of mashhad, iran in 2012. methods:this descriptive, cross sectional study was conduc...

Background and Objectives: Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of the quality of health and healthcare services. Most relevant studies in Iran have been conducted in the nation’s capital, and there is a lack of large-scale studies in other regions of this country. In order to help filling this gap, this study was designed to undertake a relatively large-scale assessment of patient sa...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Fertility control preferences and maternal healthcare have recently become a major concern for developing nations with evidence suggesting that low fertility control rates and poor maternal healthcare are among major obstructions in ensuring health and social status for women. Our objective was toanalyze the factors that influence women's autonomy, access to maternal he...

Though improvements in infant and maternal mortality rates have occurred over time, women and children still die every hour from preventable causes. Various regional, social and economic factors are involved in the ability of women and children to receive adequate care and prevention services. Patient-held maternal and/or child health records have been used for a number of years in many countri...