Facilitators and barriers to facility-based delivery in low-and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis

MA Bohren, EC Hunter, HM Munthe-Kaas, JP Souza… - Reproductive health, 2014 - Springer
High-quality obstetric delivery in a health facility reduces maternal and perinatal morbidity
and mortality. This systematic review synthesizes qualitative evidence related to the …

Still too far to walk: literature review of the determinants of delivery service use

S Gabrysch, OMR Campbell - BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2009 - Springer
Background Skilled attendance at childbirth is crucial for decreasing maternal and neonatal
mortality, yet many women in low-and middle-income countries deliver outside of health …

Health care and equity in India

Y Balarajan, S Selvaraj, SV Subramanian - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
In India, despite improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to
socioeconomic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket …

Why do women not use antenatal services in low-and middle-income countries? A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies

K Finlayson, S Downe - PLoS medicine, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Almost 50% of women in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) don't
receive adequate antenatal care. Women's views can offer important insights into this …

Factors affecting the utilization of antenatal care in develo** countries: systematic review of the literature

B Simkhada, ER Teijlingen, M Porter… - Journal of advanced …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Title. Factors affecting the utilization of antenatal care in develo** countries: systematic
review of the literature. Aim. This paper is a report of a systematic review to identify and …

Provision and uptake of routine antenatal services: a qualitative evidence synthesis

S Downe, K Finlayson, Ö Tunçalp… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Antenatal care (ANC) is a core component of maternity care. However, both
quality of care provision and rates of attendance vary widely between and within countries …

[PDF][PDF] India human development survey

S Desai, A Dubey, BL Joshi, M Sen, A Shariff… - College Park, Maryland …, 2008 - Citeseer
Research on marriage in develo** countries has been somewhat narrow in scope due to
both conceptual and data limitations. While the feminist literature recognizes marriage as a …

Barriers to the utilization of maternal health care in rural Mali

AJ Gage - Social science & medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
This study used data from the 2001 Demographic and Health Survey and multilevel logistic
regression models to examine area-and individual-level barriers to the utilization of maternal …

The burden of anemia among women in India

ME Bentley, PL Griffiths - European journal of clinical nutrition, 2003 - nature.com
Objective: This research investigates the prevalence and determinants of anemia among
women in Andhra Pradesh. We examined differences in anemia related to social class …

Contextual influences on the use of health facilities for childbirth in Africa

R Stephenson, A Baschieri… - … journal of public …, 2006 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. Previous studies of maternal health-seeking behavior focused on individual-and
household-level factors. We examined community-level influences on the decision to deliver …