Maternal Health – Lessons Learned

Performance-based incentives : ensuring voluntarism in family planning initiatives

Eichler, Rena | 2010
  • Author(s): Eichler, Rena
  • Publisher: Abt associates [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: family planning, maternal health services
This paper identifies the opportunities as well as the challenges of incorporating family planning into performance-based-incentives (FBI) approaches and it presents what is known about how low- and middle-income countries are including family planning, FBI and lessons learned.

Three approaches to community-based distribution of contraceptives in northern Nigeria : a comparison of service quality and cost-effectiveness

Ejembi, Clara Ladi and Workman, Anna M. | 2008
  • Author(s): Ejembi, Clara Ladi and Workman, Anna M.
  • Publisher: Centre for development and population activities (CEDPA)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: reproductive health, nigeria
Between December 2007 and May 2008, CEDPA conducted an operations research that compared the three models of community-based distribution of contraceptives used in its family planning programs in Northern Nigeria. This report summarizes those findings.

Improving access to life saving maternal health services : the effects of removing user fees for caesareans in Mali

El-Khoury, Marianne | 2011
  • Author(s): El-Khoury, Marianne
  • Publisher: Abt associates
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal health services, maternal welfare, health economics, mali
The free caesarean policy seems to be disproportionally benefiting the wealthier groups. An estimated 24 percent of women delivering via caesarean section in public health facilities belong to the poorest third of the population, suggesting remaining barriers to access among women of low SES.

Building support for adolescent health education and services in Nigeria : reflections from the experience of Action health incorporated (AHI)

Esiet, Adenike | 2002
  • Author(s): Esiet, Adenike
  • Publisher: International women's health coalition (IWHC)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: reproductive health, nigeria
AHI, has learned a few lessons about building community support for adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights. The lessons are documented in this report.

Achieving progress in maternal and neonatal health through integrated and comprehensive healthcare services : experiences from a programme in northern Tanzania

Evjen-Olsen, Bjorg and Olsen, طystein Evjen and Kvale, Gunnar | 2009
  • Author(s): Evjen-Olsen, Bjorg and Olsen, طystein Evjen and Kvale, Gunnar
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal and child health, maternal welfare, mortality, tanzania
In the northern Tanzania a program was started through using research and statistics from the programme area, to illustrate how a hospital-based programme with a vision of integrated healthcare may have contributed to the lower figures on mortality found in the area.
 

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This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents. It shares examples of practical projects and initiatives that have been undertaken to contribute to Millennium Development Goal 5: Improving maternal health, particularly in developing countries. Find your resources in the database.