‘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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Heliyon, 2023 Background Sustainable Development Goals −3 (SDG – 3) were to ensure healthy live and promote well-being by reducing global maternal and neonatal deaths.
Muluwas Amentie Zelka +2 more
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Indigenous maternal health and health services within Canada: a scoping review
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023 Background Globally, there are disparities in access to maternal health care services and equity in maternal health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations.
Meagan Bacciaglia +5 more
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Sexual & Reproductive HealthCare, 2022 The reduction of Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) remains a global health issue. Although major progress has been achieved in the past 15 years, the ratio is still high, especially in Low Middle-Income Countries.
Herwansyah Herwansyah +3 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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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background High rates of maternal mortality and intimate partner violence (IPV) are both major worldwide health challenges. Evidence from single-country samples suggests that IPV may be an important risk factor for low utilization of maternal health ...
Jessica Leight, Nicholas L. Wilson
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Maternal Health Services Set Toolkit for Pharmacists [PDF]
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2021 The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has predicted a shortage of 55,000 primary care physicians by 2032.[1][1] 3.7 million births were registered in the U.S. in 2018. Over 6% of those women had late (beginning in the third trimester) or no prenatal care.[2][2] Preterm birth ...
Nidhi, Gandhi +3 more
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