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Afrique du SudBéninCamerounGhanaTogo
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Facility delivery and postnatal care services use among mothers who attended four or more antenatal care visits in Ethiopia: further analysis of the 2016 demographic and health survey
BACKGROUND: Antenatal care provides the best opportunity to promote maternal and child health services use. But many Ethiopian mothers deliver …
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The significant association between maternity waiting homes utilization and perinatal mortality in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis
A proper uptake of maternity waiting homes (MWHs) is important to improve maternal and child health (MCH). The aim of …
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Enhancing Human Capital in Malawi : The Role of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Services
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Factors associated with breast cancer screening awareness and practices of women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is a global health problem being the most common cancer of women in both developed and under-developed …
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Understanding the implementation of Direct Health Facility Financing and its effect on health system performance in Tanzania: a non-controlled before and after mixed method study protocol
BACKGROUND: Globally, good health system performance has resulted from continuous reform, including adaptation of Decentralisation by Devolution policies, for example, …
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Lessons learnt from implementing community engagement interventions in mobile hard-to-reach (HTR) projects in Nigeria, 2014–2015
BACKGROUND: The year 2014 was a turning point for polio eradication in Nigeria. Confronted with the challenges of increased numbers …
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Drug utilization pattern among pregnant women attending maternal and child health clinic of tertiary hospital in eastern Ethiopia: Consideration of toxicological perspectives
OBJECTIVE: This study is aimed to investigate drug utilization pattern among pregnant women attending maternal and child health clinic of …
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“Our voices matter”: a before-after assessment of the effect of a community-participatory intervention to promote uptake of maternal and child health services in Kwale, Kenya
BACKGROUND: Community-participatory approaches are important for effective maternal and child health interventions. A community-participatory intervention (the Dialogue Model) was implemented …
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Women empowerment as an enabling factor of contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis of cross-sectional surveys of 32 countries
Women’s empowerment has a direct impact on maternal and child health care service utilization. Large scope measurement of contraceptive use …
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Quality of perinatal depression care in primary care setting in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Even though integrating mental health into maternal and child health (MCH) is widely accepted as a means of closing …
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Characteristics of perinatal depression in rural central, India: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Perinatal depression is associated with negative effects on child behavioural, cognitive and emotional development, birth outcomes, and physical growth. …
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Impact evaluation of malaria control interventions on morbidity and all-cause child mortality in Mali, 2000–2012
BACKGROUND: Major investments have been made since 2001, with intensification of malaria control interventions after 2006. Interventions included free distribution …
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Assessing the competence of midwives to provide care during labor, childbirth and the immediate postpartum period – A cross sectional study in Tigray region, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: The availability of a skilled birth attendant is widely recognized as a critical factor in reducing maternal and newborn …
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Role of maternity waiting homes in the reduction of maternal death and stillbirth in developing countries and its contribution for maternal death reduction in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Every family expect to have a healthy mother and new born baby after pregnancy. Especially for parents, pregnancy is …
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Demographic, psychosocial and clinical factors associated with postpartum depression in Kenyan women
BACKGROUND: Few longitudinal studies have examined associations between risk factors during pregnancy and mental health outcomes during the postpartum period. …
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Policy makers’ perspective on the provision of maternal health services via mobile health clinics in Tanzania—Findings from key informant interviews
OBJECTIVE: To explore the operational feasibility of using mobile health clinics to reach the chronically underserved population with maternal and …
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Timely initiation of postpartum contraceptive utilization and associated factors among women of child bearing age in Aroressa District, Southern Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Globally, more than 90% of women during the first year of postpartum period want to either delay or avoid …
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Incremental treatment costs for HIV-infected women initiating antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy: A 24-month micro-costing cohort study for a maternal and child health clinic in Kenya
BACKGROUND: To date, little information exists on the costs of providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) within maternal and child health (MCH) …
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Assessment of select electronic health information systems that support immunization data capture – Kenya, 2017
BACKGROUND: Although electronic health information systems (EHIS) with immunization components exist in Kenya, questions and concerns remain about their use …
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Maternal and child characteristics and health practices affecting under-five mortality: A matched case control study in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Though Ethiopia has shown a considerable improvement in reducing under-five mortality rate since 1990, many children still continue to …