Maternal Health Services
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Public health and health services development in postconflict communities: a case study of a safe motherhood project in East Timor.

29 Sep 2009 Armed conflict causes suffering in many countries; it contributes to poor health and hinders health services development. The effects of conflict are evidenced by weakened community structures and can make reconstruction efforts challenging. East ... Read more...

Estimation of potential effects of improved community-based drug provision, to augment health-facility strengthening, on maternal mortality due to post-partum haemorrhage and sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa: an equity-effectiveness model.

21 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality in Africa has changed little since 1990. We developed a mathematical model with the aim to assess whether improved community-based access to life-saving drugs, to augment a core programme of health-facility ... Read more...

Inequities in maternal postnatal visits among public and private patients: 2004 Pelotas cohort study.

12 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The postnatal period is the ideal time to deliver interventions to improve the health of both the newborn and the mother. However, postnatal care shows low-level coverage in a large number of countries. The objectives of this study were ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Maternal Health Services'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Strategic approaches to decrease breast milk transmission of HIV-1: the importance of small things. 13 Nov 2009
• Public health and health services development in postconflict communities: a case study of a safe motherhood project in East Timor. 29 Sep 2009
• Estimation of potential effects of improved community-based drug provision, to augment health-facility strengthening, on maternal mortality due to post-partum haemorrhage and sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa: an equity-effectiveness model. 21 Sep 2009
• Climate Change. Population: the forgotten priority. 14 Sep 2009
• Inequities in maternal postnatal visits among public and private patients: 2004 Pelotas cohort study. 12 Sep 2009
• Rural hospital beats the odds in South Africa. 3 Sep 2009
• Mastery of mothering skills and satisfaction with associated health services: an ethnocultural comparison. 30 Aug 2009
• [Maternal morbidity and quality of health care. Severe maternal morbidity--new indicator of inequality in obstetric care] 30 Aug 2009
• Maternal-child-reproductive health. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving poor women's access to maternity care: Findings from a primary care intervention in Burkina Faso. 30 Aug 2009
• Saving the lives of South Africa's mothers, babies, and children: can the health system deliver? 22 Aug 2009
• Does government provision of healthcare explain the relationship between income inequality and low birthweight? 19 Aug 2009
• "Someone's rooting for you": continuity, advocacy and street-level bureaucracy in UK maternal healthcare. 19 Aug 2009
• Health inequalities: gendered puzzles and conundrums. The 10th Annual Sol Levine Lecture on Society and Health, October 6, 2008. 19 Aug 2009
• "Women's autonomy and pregnancy care in rural India: a contextual analysis". Aug 2009
• Girls connect: effects of a support group for teenage girls with inflammatory bowel disease and their mothers. 30 Jul 2009
• Improving service delivery in a county health department WIC clinic: an application of statistical process control techniques. 14 Jul 2009
• Maternal mortality in Syria: causes, contributing factors and preventability. 12 Jul 2009
• Feasibility of one-stop antenatal syphilis screening in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: women and providers perspectives. 29 Jun 2009
• Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Vietnam and Indonesia: diverging care dynamics. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Maternal Health Services'

Definition: Organized services to provide health care to expectant and nursing mothers.

Descriptor UI: D008427

Alternative terms: Maternal Health Services; Health Service, Maternal; Maternal Health Service; Service, Maternal Health; Services, Maternal Health; Health Services, Maternal;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.421.143.620; N02.421.800.500;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: specify geog; check also tags HUMAN; FEMALE & PREGNANCY; DF: MATERNAL HEALTH SERV