Satisfaction with maternal health services and associated factors among parents in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionSatisfaction with maternal health services serves as a vital indicator of the overall quality of care and significantly influences child healthcare outcomes.
Agerie Mengistie Zeleke +3 more
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Association between socioeconomic status and the utilization of maternal health services in Nigeria [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 2023 Background: Maternal health is the mother's state of well-being before, during, and after conception. Studies have suggested that the increasing maternal mortality rate is preventable provided maternal health services are accessible during pregnancy ...
Bukola T Maitanmi +5 more
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Parental expectations of maternal and child health services [PDF]
Social Work in Public Health, 2015 This article reports on survey research (N=1,418) aimed at examining whether parental expectations of maternal and child health (MCH) services are influenced by group characteristics (e.g., socioeconomic status [SES], ethnicity, at risk of poverty) and ...
Bradt, Lieve +3 more
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Inequalities in utilization of maternal health services in Ethiopia: evidence from the PMA Ethiopia longitudinal survey [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundPrevious studies documented the existence of substantial inequalities in the utilization of maternal health services across different population subgroups in Ethiopia.
Asebe Hagos +7 more
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How equitable is utilization of maternal health services in Uganda? Implications for achieving universal health coverage [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background Maternal and neonatal mortality in Uganda remain persistently high. While utilisation of maternal health services has been shown to reduce the risk of maternal death, little is known about the inequalities in utilisation of maternal health ...
Phiona Atuhaire +2 more
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‘I really feel pity for them’: health workers’ readiness to offer maternal health services to urban refugee adolescents in Kampala, Uganda—a qualitative study [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthIntroduction Uganda hosts an estimated 1.6 million refugees and 12.5% are urban refugees living in Kampala. Uganda is implementing an integrated healthcare system where both refugee and host populations use the same healthcare services.
Olivia Nakisita +5 more
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Community perspectives on access to maternal health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in rural Western Kenya: a qualitative study [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Globally, maternal and child health outcomes were negatively affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is limited qualitative evidence focused on access to maternal health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in rural sub-Saharan African ...
Neema Kaseje +4 more
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Evaluation of the causal effect of maternal education on the utilisation of maternal health services in Bangladesh using an observational study - a comparison of different propensity score methods and covariate adjustment [PDF]
Archives of Public HealthBackground Assessing maternal health care utilisation is imperative for the health of both mother and her child. Maternal education is an important determinant in subsequent maternal health care usage, according to research. There is a dearth of research
Ema Akter +8 more
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Pregnancy outcomes in women affected by fetal alpha-thalassemia: a case control study
Scientific Reports, 2021 To evaluate the possible associations between fetal α-thalassemia and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes using a provincial woman-child health service information database in China.
Jiangheng Li +6 more
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Which health services reduce maternal mortality? Evidence from ratings of maternal health services [PDF]
Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2003 SummaryWe report cross‐national regressions for maternal mortality in 49 developing countries, using indices of the adequacy of maternal health services derived from ratings by at least 10 experts per country. As in previous such regressions, a socioeconomic factor – in this case per capita income – has a significant effect, but having a trained ...
Rodolfo A, Bulatao, John A, Ross
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