OBJECTIVES Our aim is evaluating the need for repeating tests for syphilis on pregnant women in the third trimester. STUDY DESIGN A single-center retrospective cohort study was performed on all women delivering 7/03-6/04. RESULTS During the study interval, 2244 women delivered at our hospital. Of those women having available records and attending at least one prenatal visit, 1940 (98.9%) we...

BACKGROUND Male involvement during antenatal care is promoted to be an important intervention to increase positive maternal and new born health outcomes. Despite active promotion to stimulate male involvement during antenatal care, few men in Tanzania accompany women to their antenatal care visits. This study aims to understand perceptions, attitudes and behaviour of men regarding their role an...

BACKGROUND When examining risk factors for inadequate antenatal care, the assessment of antenatal care hardly considers the content and timing of interventions during pregnancy. This study aims to provide information about the importance of predisposing, enabling and pregnancy-related determinants on the received content and timing of antenatal care. METHODS In the Brussels Metropolitan Regio...

OBJECTIVES To describe the socio-demographic characteristics and utilization pattern of antenatal care of reproductive age group women (15-49 years) in an urban squatter settlement of Karachi and to assess and compare the knowledge on antenatal care between women who received and those who did not receive antenatal care. METHODS A community-based cross sectional survey was conducted and a sam...

INTRODUCTION This paper reviews the literature exploring the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women accessing antenatal care in Australia, alongside literature comparing standard models of antenatal care against midwifery continuity models of antenatal care. Attention is given to evidence based benefits of midwifery continuity care models, and how these benefits can better a...

In contrast to the UK, Canada and New Zealand, where general practitioner (GP) involvement in pregnancy care has decreased, GPs in Australia continue to be high providers of antenatal care.2 However, there is very little published research about the antenatal care provided by GPs in Australia. Australia has consistently had lower maternal and perinatal death rates than the majority of comparabl...

BACKGROUND In Ethiopia, the levels of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality are among the highest in the world. This is attributed to, among other factors, none use of modern health care services by women in Ethiopia. According to the 2005 Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey, more than seven in ten mothers did not receive antenatal care at all. Therefore, the objective of this study was t...

Back ground: Increasing the proportion of institutional deliveries with a skilled attendant is a key intervention for reducing maternal morbidity and mortality. However remarkable difference is observed between the proportion of antenatal care clients and facility delivery utilisation. In Ethiopia, little is known about the factors that affect women’s place of delivery after utilization of ante...

BACKGROUND Depressive symptoms during pregnancy can have multiple adverse effects on perinatal outcomes, including maternal morbidity and mortality. The potential impact of antenatal depressive symptoms on maternal health care use, however, has been little explored in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper investigates whether maternal health care utilisation varies as a function o...