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More Than Four Walls: The Meaning of Home in Home Birth Experiences

Social Inclusion, 2015
The “home versus hospital” as places of birth debate has had a long and at times vicious history. From academic literature to media coverage, the two have often been pitted against each other not only as opposing physical spaces, but also as opposing ...
Emily Burns
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Who Delivers without Water? A Multi Country Analysis of Water and Sanitation in the Childbirth Environment.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Background and objectivesHygiene during childbirth is essential to the health of mothers and newborns, irrespective of where birth takes place.
Giorgia Gon, María Clara Restrepo-Méndez, Oona M R Campbell, Aluísio J D Barros, Susannah Woodd, Lenka Benova, Wendy J Graham   +6 more
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Trends and determinants of health facility childbirth service utilization among mothers in urban slums of Nairobi, Kenya

Global Epidemiology, 2020
High maternal mortality remains a challenge for the attainment of the third Sustainable Development Goal in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, maternal mortality ratio remains high at 362 deaths per 100,000 live births.
Catherine Atahigwa, Damazo T. Kadengye, Samuel Iddi, Steven Abrams, Annelies Van Rie   +4 more
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Effectiveness of Community Based Safe Motherhood Promoters in Improving the Utilization of Obstetric care. The Case of Mtwara Rural District in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2010
In Tanzania, maternal mortality ratio remains unacceptably high at 578/100,000 live births. Despite a high coverage of antenatal care (96%), only 44% of deliveries take place within the formal health services.
Declare Mushi, Rose Mpembeni, Albrecht Jahn, UNICEF, ICM/FIGO, UN, National Bureau of Statistics, SN Massawe, F Font, National Bureau of Statistics {Tanzania} & Macro International Inc. 1997, E Urassa, KM Moore, S Thaddeus, RS Ross, M Kowalewski, M Rosato, J Elder, A Kleinman, MotherCare Matters, E Murray, C Santarelli, WHO, SB Rifkin, T Lankester, B Nwakoby, JS Kiwanuka, United Nation., A Jahn, D Mushi, J Lennon, D Werner, Tanzania Ministry of Health, District Medical Officer, E Essien, U Lehmann, HB Kendah, BN Nwakoby, S Jessop, S Rowland, B Kunene, BC Mullany, District Medical Officer, G Walraven, M Thorogood   +43 more
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When general practitioners meet new evidence: an exploratory ethnographic study

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2017
Objective: To explore how general practitioners (GPs) think and act when presented with new evidence in relation to planned home birth and a proposal to change information practices. Design: Exploratory ethnographic study of GPs. The GPs were encountered
Ole Olsen
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Increasing the use of skilled health personnel where traditional birth attendants were providers of childbirth care: a systematic review [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Improved access to skilled health personnel for childbirth is a priority strategy to improve maternal health. This study investigates interventions to achieve this where traditional birth attendants were providers of childbirth care and asks:
Coast, Ernestina, Leone, Tiziana, Marston, Cicley, Miller, Tina, Portela, Anayda, Vieira, Claudia   +5 more
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Siberi eestlaste lapse sünniga seotud kombestik ja sünnituslood [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2023
To study the childbirth customs and stories of Siberian Estonians, I used conversations and interviews conducted in various Siberian Estonian communities during the fieldwork of the Estonian Folklore Archives between 1991 and 2013, as well as the ...
Anu Korb
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Early breastfeeding practices: Descriptive analysis of recent Demographic and Health Surveys. [PDF]

, 2017
The aim of this study was to describe early breastfeeding practices (initiation within 1 hr of birth, no prelacteal feeding, and a combination of both-"optimal" early breastfeeding) according to childbirth location in low- and middle-income countries ...
Benova, Lenka, Campbell, Oona MR, Lynch, Caroline A, Macleod, David, Oakley, Laura   +4 more
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Birthing practices of traditional birth attendants in South Asia in the context of training programmes [PDF]

, 2010
Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) training has been an important component of public health policy interventions to improve maternal and child health in developing countries since the 1970s.
Adamson, P., Armstrong, P., Bajpai, S., Bajpai, S., Bajpai, S., Banerjee, A., Banerjee, A., Bhardwaj, N., Bhutta, Z.A., Brown, H., Carpenter, J.P., Chaudhury, N., Chirmulay, D., Dalmiya, V., Das, B.K., Fatmi, Z., Gavin Turrell, Guha, S., Helen Johnson, Hitesh, J., Hota, P.K., Isenalumbe, A.E., Jeffery, R., Jeffery, R., Jennifer Fraser, John, T.J., Kausar, F., Khan, M.E., Khandekar, J., Kitzinger, S., Kumar, R., Lak, D., Lettenmaier, C., Maitra, K., Mashelkar, R.A., Mathews, Z., Mathews, Z., Mesko, N., Misra, R., Nagadeve, D.A., Nandan, D., Nandan, D., Pfitzer, A., Pinto, S., Raina, N., Ram, K., Rodgers, K.A., Saeed Ali, T., Shariff, A., Sheela Saravanan, Smale, M., Smith, D., Smith, D., Smith, D., Sreeramareddy, C.T., Srivastava, S.P., Unnithan, M.K., Van Hollen, C.   +57 more
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Determinants of place of delivery among women in indigenous communities of western India: A mixed-methods exploratory study [PDF]

Journal of Preventive and Complementary Medicine
Background: Disparities in maternal and child health indicators in India's tribal regions are concerning, characterized by a high prevalence of home deliveries, which are linked to adverse obstetric outcomes, including maternal complications and ...
Priti Solanky, Hitesh Shah
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