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The influences of distance on health facility delivery in rural Zambia [PDF]

Skilled attendance at delivery is crucial for decreasing maternal and neonatal mortality. My literature review showed that epidemiological research on factors influencing whether women receive skilled attendance has so far been hampered by a lack of ...
Gabrysch, Sabine
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Utilization of delivery care among rural women in china: does the health insurance make a difference? a cross-sectional study [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Since 2003, the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) has been implemented throughout rural China, usually covering delivery services in its benefit package. The objective of this study was to compare the difference of utilization of delivery
Hemminki, Elina, Long Qian, Yan Hong, Elina Hemminki, Jianmin Gao, Xiao Shengbin, Shen Yuan, Duolao Wang, Gao, Jianmin, Gao Jianmin, Qian Long, Long, Qian, Xiao, Shengbin, Dang, Shaonong, Wang, Duolao, Hemminki Elina, Shen, Yuan, Wang Duolao, Shengbin Xiao, Yuan Shen, Dang Shaonong, Shaonong Dang, Yan, Hong, Hong Yan   +23 more
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Use Pattern of Maternal Health Services and Determinants of Skilled Care During Delivery in Southern Tanzania: Implications for Achievement of MDG-5 targets. [PDF]

, 2007
Almost two decades since the initiation of the Safe motherhood Initiative, Maternal Mortality is still soaring high in most developing countries. In 2000 WHO estimated a life time risk of a maternal death of 1 in 16 in Sub- Saharan Africa while it was ...
Mpembeni, Rose Nm, Leshabari, Melkzedeck T, Mushi, Declare, Killewo, Japhet Z, Jahn, Albrecht, Massawe, Siriel N, Mwakipa, Hassan   +6 more
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Did the strategy of skilled attendance at birth reach the poor in Indonesia? [PDF]

, 2007
Objective To assess whether the strategy of “a midwife in every village” in Indonesia achieved its aim of increasing professional delivery care for the poorest women.
Ronsmans, Carine, Makowiecka, Krystyna, Adisasmita, Asri, Achadi, Endang, Stanton, Cynthia, Hatt, Laurel   +5 more
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[Complementary obstetrical delivery methods].

Lijecnicki vjesnik, 2006
Complementary methods in obstetrics are related to humanization of delivery and woman's decision on the mode of delivery in normal labor. The methods include various birthing positions, aids such as delivery chair, birthing wheel, etc., and water delivery.
Vuković Bobić, Mirna, Habek, Dubravko
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The effects of childbirth on the pelvic-floor [PDF]

, 2000
Basically, vaginal delivery is associated with the risk of pelvic floor damage. The pelvic floor sequelae of childbirth includes anal incontinence, urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
Dannecker, Christian, Anthuber, Christoph   +1 more
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Mode of Vaginal Delivery: A Modifiable Intrapartum Risk Factor for Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury

Obstetrics and Gynecology International, 2015
The aim of this study was to analyze the comparative risks of this anal sphincter injury in relation to the type of intervention in vaginal delivery.
Marta Simó González, Oriol Porta Roda, Josep Perelló Capó, Ignasi Gich Saladich, Joaquim Calaf Alsina   +4 more
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Getting women to hospital is not enough: a qualitative study of access to emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh

, 2006
Objective: To explore what happened to poor women in Bangladesh once they reached a hospital providing comprehensive emergency obstetric care (EmOC) and to identify support mechanisms. Design: Mixed methods qualitative study.
Dixon-Woods, Mary, Edwin van Teijlingen (64309), Wendy Graham (350808), Mushtaque Chowdhury (7579988), Mary Dixon-Woods (7579535), Graham, Wendy, Chowdhury, M., Emma Pitchforth (3531311), Pitchforth, Emma, van Teijlingen, Edwin   +9 more
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The effect of delaying childbirth on primary cesarean section rates [PDF]

, 2008
<p><b>Background:</b> The relationship between population trends in delaying childbirth and rising rates of primary cesarean delivery is unclear.
Yolande Cordeaux, Fleming Michael, Hannah Missfelder-Lobos, Missfelder-Lobos, Hannah, Jill P Pell, Smith, Gordon C S, Missfelder-Lobos Hannah, Pell, Jill P, Charnock-Jones, D Stephen, Fleming, M., Michael Fleming, Dharmintra Pasupathy, Smith Gordon C. S, White, Ian R, White Ian R, Pasupathy, Dharmintra, Fleming, Michael, Cordeaux Yolande, Gordon C S Smith, White, I.R., Pasupathy, D., Cordeaux, Y., Pell, J., Pasupathy Dharmintra, Charnock-Jones, D.S., Pell Jill P, Smith, G.C.S., Cordeaux, Yolande, D. Stephen Charnock-Jones, Gordon C. S Smith, D Stephen Charnock-Jones, Ian R White, Charnock-Jones D. Stephen, Missfelder-Lobos, M.   +33 more
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“We Beat Them to Help Them Push”: Midwives’ Perceptions on Obstetric Violence in the Ashante and Western Regions of Ghana

Women, 2022
Obstetric violence has been recognized as a major impediment to facility-based delivery, increasing the risk of preventable complications and maternal mortality.
Abena Asefuaba Yalley
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