Uddin Khan, Mohammad Nasir | 2009
- Author(s): Uddin Khan, Mohammad Nasir
- Publisher: BRAC centre [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: maternal health services, health care delivery, health economics, rural areas, obstetrics, poverty, midwives, bangladesh
The costs of skilled maternal and newborn care are major obstacles to access. This study analyzed the costs incurred by a household for maternal and newborn care in selected areas of rural Bangladesh.
Undie, Chi-Chi and RamaRao, Saumya | 2010
- Author(s): Undie, Chi-Chi and RamaRao, Saumya
- Publisher: EngenderHealth. The Respond project
- Pages: --
- Keywords: maternal health services, reproductive health, family planning, kenya
The Project designed an intervention package aimed at increasing awareness and use of postabortion care (PAC) services and improving family planning, reproductive health, and maternal health outcomes. There is a need for PAC services and utilization of health services during pregnancy is limited.
Uprety, Ajay Kumar and Sharma, Ishita | [2010]
- Author(s): Uprety, Ajay Kumar and Sharma, Ishita
- Publisher: International planned parenthood federation (IPPF) [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: maternal health services, reproductive health, youth, nepal
This shadow report hopes to highlight the urgency and importance of meeting the needs of young people in order for Nepal to achieve its MDG targets by 2015, as well as raise visibility of the issue of young people’s SRHR and the need to effectively address the same at the UN Summit on the MDGs.
Van Lerberghe, Wim | cop. 2005
- Author(s): Van Lerberghe, Wim
- Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: maternal and child health, pregnancy, childbirth, midwives, child health, maternal health services, mortality, maternal welfare
The World Health Report 2005 - Make Every Mother and Child Count examines the reasons why so many children under five years of age and women in pregnancy, during childbirth or soon after continue to die from causes that are largely preventable - and how the annual toll can be reduced.
Van Rijsbergen, Bart and D'Exelle, Ben | 2012
- Author(s): Van Rijsbergen, Bart and D'Exelle, Ben
- Publisher: Elsevier
- Pages: --
- Keywords: attitudes, maternal welfare, maternal health services, tanzania
Study combines data from a survey and a choice experiment to compare women’s preferences with real choices of delivery care. Women who delivered outside a health facility find the technical quality of care less important. Their lower use of care is partly induced by their preferences [abstract only]