Maternal Health – Lessons Learned

Factors influencing the use of antenatal care in rural West Sumatra, Indonesia

Agus, Yenita and Horiuchi, Shigeko | 2012

• Author(s): Agus, Yenita and Horiuchi, Shigeko
• Publisher: BioMed central
• Pages: --
• Keywords: poverty, midwives, maternal and child health, maternal health services, indonesia

Traditional beliefs followed by lower income families had greater influence over preferring TBAs, with the opposite trend for preferring midwives. Increased attention needs to be given to the women; it is also very important for exploring women's perceptions about health services that they received.

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Reducing inequities : ensuring universal access to family planning as a key component of sexual and reproductive health

Ahmed, Jalaluddin | [2010]

• Author(s): Ahmed, Jalaluddin
• Publisher: United nations population fund (UNFPA). International conference on population and development (ICPD)
• Pages: --
• Keywords: maternal health services, family planning, reproductive health

This brochure reflects a consensus of 40 international experts who convened in New York on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development.

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Contraceptive commodities for women's health : key data and findings

Ahmed, Kabir | 2012

• Author(s): Ahmed, Kabir
• Publisher: United nations population fund (UNFPA)]
• Pages: --
• Keywords: health policy, contraceptive usage, contraceptives

This report, prepared for the United Nations Commission on Commodities for Women and Children’s Health, provides a review of three contraceptive commodities that are considered to be overlooked or underutilized: the female condom, hormonal implants and emergency contraception.

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\"Community participation - a missing essential from the primary health care approach in the Community midwives programme\" : summary report of a study on assessment of community participation in the Community midwives programme

Akhtar, Tasleem | 2012

• Author(s): Akhtar, Tasleem
• Publisher: Khyber medical university (KMU)
• Pages: --
• Keywords: health programmes, community participation, midwives

This report aimed to determine both the recognition given to the role of the community in the programme guiding documents and among the programme managers and advisors, and the attitude, perceptions and utilization of the community midwives by the community.

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Reduction of severe acute maternal morbidity and maternal mortality in Thyolo district, Malawi : the impact of obstetric audit

Akker, Thomas van den | 2011

• Author(s): Akker, Thomas van den
• Publisher: Public library of science] (PLoS)
• Pages: --
• Keywords: maternal mortality, maternal welfare, maternal health services, malawi

Findings indicate that audit and feedback have the potential to reduce serious maternal complications including maternal mortality. Complications like major hemorrhage are easier to reduce than those which require uptake of improved antenatal care or HIV-treatment.

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