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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Birth attendant"”.
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Skilled Birth Attendant Assessment In Haiti: A Pilot Project
… a cohort of graduates from a grassroots skilled birth attendant training program in Haiti to determine if they meet global standards of competency established by the International Confederation of Midwives. </p> <p>Design and setting: A testing instrument that included both a 50-question, …
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Women’s perspectives of home birth with a traditional birth attendant in the East African Community: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Maternal mortality and morbidity related to childbirth constitutes a considerable health burden in the East African Community (EAC). This project aims to understand the perspectives of women regarding the role of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in home birth occurring in the EAC. To address …
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Pregnancy in Peril: The impact of conflict on antenatal care and skilled birth attendant utilization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi
… which influence antenatal care and skilled birth attendant usage in these two countries. Findings indicate that women living in high conflict regions were significantly less likely than those in low conflict regions to have their first antenatal care visit within the first trimester, have …
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Factors affecting the utilisation of skilled birth attendants for delivery in a western hill district of Nepal
… in developing countries. The use of skilled birth attendants is low in those countries where maternal mortality rates are high and most of these deaths could be prevented if skilled birth attendant services were available. Only 36 percent of women use skilled birth attendants in Nepal. There …
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Factors associated with pregnant women's participation in a mHealth intervention in Timor-Leste
… questions on antenatal and postpartum care, birthing practices, and postpartum care, as well as information about mobile phone ownership and usage. Bi-variate and multi-variate logistic regression models were used to examine the association of enrollment of eligible women in the mHealth …
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Information Interventions to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Indonesia
… role of information on the risk of death in childbirth can change women’s reproductive behaviors. In the first two chapters, I use the Maternal Mortality Module from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in Indonesia to examine fertility and reproductive behavior responses to a sister’s death in …
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Infant and child mortality differentials in the southern region of Malawi
… is higher among first order and high order births than among births of second or third order. Furthermore, mortality declines as the length of the birth interval increases. Also, twins had higher infant and child mortality than singletons. Infant and child mortality declined as the mother's …
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Infant and child mortality differentials in the southern region of Malawi
… is higher among first order and high order births than among births of second or third order. Furthermore, mortality declines as the length of the birth interval increases. Also, twins had higher infant and child mortality than singletons. Infant and child mortality declined as the mother's …
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Accuracy In Reporting Of Kentucky Certified Nurse-Midwives As Attendants In Birth Registration Data
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction: Birth certificate data is used nationally to determine healthcare policy, allocation of funds, and to demonstrate the legitimacy and value of Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) in maternal and neonatal outcomes. However, the validity of birth certificate data is …
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Midwife of An-arché: Toward a Poetics of Becoming-with-Woman
… between midwifery and the ethical demands attendant to poetic practice. Through verse and prose, I unfold a figuration of the midwife that traverses the boundaries between Levinasian heteronomy and Deleuzian heteromorphism, and is a constitutive factor in sites of resistance to the …
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Predictors of Primary Elective Cesarean Delivery Among Apparently Healthy Pregnant Women in Virginia
… the 2004 Virginia Statistics File for Live Births which contained 103,830 records. From this dataset, the following groups of women were excluded: multiparous women, women who had had a previous delivery by any method, women with medical and obstetric problems, women with any labor and …
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Factors influencing access to emergency obstetric care amongst women seen in one of the tertiary health facilities in Delta State, Nigeria
… indicate that maternal health care by a skilled birth attendant is one of the key strategies for maternal survival. However, the rate of maternity care utilisation and reduction of maternal death is very low in Nigeria. This study was designed to investigate factors influencing access to …
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Measuring what works: a mixed-methods evaluation of women’s groups on maternal health uptake in rural Nepal.
… intervention did not influence women’s place of birth or likelihood of receiving care from a skilled birth attendant. However, it did improve attendance for the recommended four antenatal visits for the first two and a half years. The qualitative findings helped explain some of the changes or …
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A low cost, sustainable, locally delivered intervention to promote exclusive breastfeeding practices in rural Bangladeshi women
… by locally practiced dai or a traditional birth attendant (TBA). With adequate training and knowledge in optimum infant feeding, TBAs could establish a locally acceptable and sustainable custom of breastfeeding practices amongst mothers in rural areas. Methods: A controlled trial was …
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Social determinants and the role of maternal health care services for equity in maternal health in Ghana from 1988 – 2008
… contraceptive use, fertility, use of skilled birth attendants and antenatal care utilization. Meanwhile, the observed inequality trends differed by equity stratifier and the specific maternal health indicator used. There is a general development toward equity in the use of modern contraception …
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Qualitative study exploring Maternity Ward Attendants’ perceptions of occupational (work related) stress and the coping methods they adopted within maternity care settings (hospital) in Nigeria
Background: Occupational stress is a global and complex phenomenon, and workers in developing countries can be affected by it (International Labour Organisation 2001). Staff within maternity settings have been identified as being at risk of suffering from stress, resulting in adverse health …