Antenatal Care (ANC)
Late antenatal care initiation: the case of public health centers in Ethiopia
... Antenatal care (ANC) is a special care given for women during pregnancy and it is regarded as the cornerstone for improving peri-natal outcomes [1, ...focused antenatal care (FANC) ...
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They receive antenatal care in health facilities, yet do not deliver there: predictors of health facility delivery by women in rural Ghana
... received antenatal care (ANC) at least once from a qualified health provider during preg- nancy ...health care providers, parity and distance, the effect of which is compounded by the lack of ...
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Health System Factors Affecting Uptake of Antenatal Care by Women of Reproductive Age in Kisumu County, Kenya
... This study sought to determine how health system factors affect antenatal care services uptake. A descriptive cross-sectional study design was adopted. The population under study was selected household ...
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Antenatal care in practice: an exploratory study in antenatal care clinics in the Kilombero Valley, south eastern Tanzania
... of antenatal care ser- vices provided to pregnant women raised questions about health workers’ performance: practice often diverges from the standards required in the guidelines ...single antenatal ...
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Expectant fathers’ participation in antenatal care services in Papua New Guinea: a qualitative inquiry
... provide antenatal care on spe- cific days and at specific times, and given our finding that some expectant fathers wait outside the clinic while their partner receives ANC, men-only group antenatal ...
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Determinants of stillbirths in Ghana: does quality of antenatal care matter?
... quality antenatal care (ANC), which may have an additional role in preventing ...nine antenatal services during the last pregnancy, including education about pregnancy complications; with receipt of ...
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Antenatal care use in Ethiopia: a spatial and multilevel analysis
... One important note here is that ‘where are the hot spots?’ is not necessarily the same as ‘where are the high- est values?’ Hot spot analysis is a test of spatial random- ness. In hot spot analysis, one can get a feature ...
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Prevalence of male partners involvement in antenatal care visits – in Kyela district, Mbeya
... Male participation in antenatal care is thought to be im- portant in improving positive maternal and new born health outcomes [4]. In this study, the prevalence of men attending ANC visits with their ...
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How much time do health services spend on antenatal care? Implications for the introduction of the focused antenatal care model in Tanzania
... of Antenatal Care" [1]. While antenatal care interventions, in and of themselves, cannot be expected to have a major impact on maternal mortality, their purpose is to improve maternal and ...
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Women’s perceptions of antenatal care: are we following guideline recommended care?
... other antenatal care settings and with larger samples, to examine potential individual provider- and site-level variations in quality of ...of care and recom- mendations regarding the management of ...
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Effectiveness of regular weighing, weight target setting and feedback by community midwives within routine antenatal care in preventing excessive gestational weight gain: randomised controlled trial
... routine antenatal care in the UK and other countries but there is a paucity of evidence of effective interventions to prevent excessive gestational weight ...
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The effects of pregnancy intention on the use of antenatal care services: systematic review and meta-analysis
... prenatal care among women with unintended pregnancies ...delayed antenatal care among women with unintended pregnancies com- pared to women with intended pregnancies (Table ...
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Effect of antenatal care and social well being on early neonatal mortality in Bangladesh
... Methods: The data used for this study is the Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. This study used several independent variables such as mother ’ s school attendance, receiving antenatal care, ...
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Assessment of Mothers Level of Satisfaction with Antenatal Care Services Provided at Alganesh Health Center Shire, North West Tigray, Ethiopia
... focused antenatal care service and associated factors among pregnant women attending focused antenatal care at health centers in Jimma town, Jimma zone, South West Ethiopia; a facility based ...
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Maternal body mass index and access to antenatal care: a retrospective analysis of 619,502 births in England
... Accessing care late in pregnancy misses opportunities for routine screening such as the fetal anomaly scan at 20 weeks gestation ...to care identified in our study, these were not ob- served to the same ...
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Male partner attendance at antenatal care and adherence to antenatal care guidelines: secondary analysis of 2011 Ethiopian demographic and health survey data
... of antenatal care, receiving screening tests and receiving all the components of ante- natal care was where the woman ...four antenatal care sessions and undergoing screening tests, ...
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Men’s perspectives on male participation in antenatal care with their pregnant wives: a case of a military hospital in Lusaka, Zambia
... Data analysis was done manually. This was done by designing a table that listed all identified codes which participant brought out during interviews. Finally, we searched for patterns, associations, concepts, and expla- ...
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Quality of antenatal care predicts retention in skilled birth attendance: a multilevel analysis of 28 African countries
... maternal care in Africa in two definite ...in care and the experi- ence of prior care received along the continuum, adjusting for demographic determinants of care use, in a multilevel ...
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Non malarial infectious diseases of antenatal care in pregnant women in Franceville, Gabon
... routine antenatal care visits in the first trimester of pregnancy in order to prevent adverse health pregnancy outcomes such as stillbirth, neonatal death, low birth weight and congenital deformities ...
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Supply side dimensions and dynamics of integrating HIV testing and counselling into routine antenatal care: a facility assessment from Morogoro Region, Tanzania
... into antenatal care [51, 52]; however, a study in Malawi indicated that under Option B+, women who initiated antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy were five times more likely than those initiating ...
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