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Maternity Care: A Narrative Overview of What Women Expect Across Their Care Continuum

Midwifery, 2015
to provide a narrative overview of the values schema underpinning women׳s expectations of public maternity-care services using an episodes-of-care framework.focus-group discussions and in-depth interviews were undertaken with Western Australian women who had opted for public maternity care to determine the values schema apparent in their expectations ...
Tracy Reibel, Shelley E Beatty, Kim Clark   +2 more
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Linkages Within the Reproductive and Maternal Health Continuum of Care in Bangladesh

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 2016
The continuum of care (CoC) is a fundamental approach to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health policy and programs, but linkages along the CoC are inadequately understood. This article assesses linkages in reproductive and maternal health (RMH) services in Bangladesh using the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (n = 7170 ...
Lotus, McDougal, Melanie L A, Rusch, Jay G, Silverman, Anita, Raj   +3 more
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Continuum of care for maternal, newborn and child health: Evidence from a national survey in Mexico

Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 2022
To compare coverage of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) continuum of care between women who had experienced adolescent maternity (AM) and those who had not.Using a Mexican probabilistic survey representative at the national level (ENSANUT 2018-19), we developed a cross-sectional analysis of 1,768 women aged 12 to 49 years who had a child ...
Leticia, Suárez-López, Celia, Hubert, Elvia, de la Vara-Salazar, Aremis, Villalobos, Filipa, de Castro, María I, Hernández-Serrato, Leticia, Ávila-Burgos   +6 more
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Continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health: from slogan to service delivery

The Lancet, 2007
The continuum of care has become a rallying call to reduce the yearly toll of half a million maternal deaths, 4 million neonatal deaths, and 6 million child deaths. The continuum for maternal, newborn, and child health usually refers to continuity of individual care.
Kate J, Kerber, Joseph E, de Graft-Johnson, Zulfiqar A, Bhutta, Pius, Okong, Ann, Starrs, Joy E, Lawn   +5 more
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Improving the maternal hypertension care continuum

Purpose of the Project: The goal of this quality improvement project was to evaluate if the implementation of education on maternal hypertension would improve healthcare providers response and administration of antihypertensives within one-hour of the patient’s documented severe blood pressure.
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Maternal perceptions and factors affecting Kangaroo mother care continuum at home: a descriptive study

The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 2017
To estimate the proportion of mothers who continued to practice Kangaroo mother care (KMC) at home and evaluate potential factors influencing this practice.This descriptive study was conducted in a tertiary care teaching hospital in south India. Mothers of preterm and low birth weight infants were trained in KMC during hospital stay.
R, Raajashri, B, Adhisivam, B, Vishnu Bhat, C, Palanivel   +3 more
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Returns on Investment in the Continuum of Care for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health

2016
The continuum of care for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) addresses three key dimensions of service delivery across time, space, and type of care (Kerber and others 2007): Access to needed services throughout the life cycle, including adolescence, pregnancy, childbirth, the postnatal period, and childhood.
Stenberg, Karin, Sweeny, Kim, Axelson, Henrik, Temmerman, Marleen, Sheehan, Peter   +4 more
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Is the Maternal and Child Health Handbook a Source of Information for Maternal and Child Health Continuum of Care?

Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 2019
To ensure continuum care for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), home-based records (HBRs) are expected to promote communication between healthcare providers, pregnant women and children’ caregivers. WHO guidelines (2018) recommend HBRs use for MNCH, and request their effective implementation.
Keiko Osaki, Martha Irene Kartasurya
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Effects of Maternal Utilization of Continuum of Care from Pregnancy to Postpartum on Breastfeeding Practices in Bangladesh

Journal of Human Lactation
Background: Continuum of care (CoC) for maternal health, comprising antenatal care (ANC), delivery assisted by skilled birth attendants (SBA), and postnatal care (PNC), provides caregivers with opportunities to sensitize mothers about recommended breastfeeding practices.
M. A. Rifat, Rinath Bintey Didar, Joya Bhowmick, Rokibul Islam   +3 more
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Continuum of Care for Maternal and Child Health in India and EAG States

2023
null Rinju, Abhishek Sharma
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