Birth attendant
How many births in sub Saharan Africa and South Asia will not be attended by a skilled birth attendant between 2011 and 2015?
... There exists large variation between countries in SBA coverage, trends in coverage (additional file 1: country- level results) and maternal mortality. At the same time, we recognise that policy initiatives to increase ...
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Predicting satisfaction with a midwife or obstetrician birth attendant.
... egalitarian birth attendant’s attention to their individuality when providing maternity care since the egalitarian birth attendant is open to discussing treatment options with the patient and allows ...
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Determinants of use of skilled birth attendant at delivery in Makueni, Kenya: a cross sectional study
... The partner’s level of education is typically seen as important since it reflects the influence of the head of the household in making reproductive health decisions [19]. Partners who had higher education level ...
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Changing the role of the traditional birth attendant in Somaliland
... Objective: To explore the feasibility of changing the role of the traditional birth attendant (TBA) to act as birth companion and promoter of skilled birth attendance. Methods: Between 2008 ...
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Socio demographic determinants of skilled birth attendant at delivery in rural southern Ghana
... Background: Maternal mortality is the subject of the United Nations’ fifth Millennium Development Goal, which is to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters from 1990 to 2015. The giant strides made by ...
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<p>When Women Deliver at Home Without a Skilled Birth Attendant: A Qualitative Study on the Role of Health Care Systems in the Increasing Home Births Among Rural Women in Southwestern Uganda</p>
... Background: Uganda ’ s maternal mortality remains unacceptably high, with thousands of women and newborns still dying of preventable deaths from pregnancy and childbirth-related complica- tions. Globally, Antenatal care ...
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Traditional Birth Attendant reorientation and Motherpacks incentive’s effect on health facility delivery uptake in Narok County, Kenya: An impact analysis
... skilled birth assistance during childbirth through two demand side ...traditional birth attendants (TBAs) were co-opted into using their influence to promote use of skilled birth attendants (SBAs) at ...
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Examining the mechanisms by which women’s status and empowerment affect skilled birth attendant use in Senegal: a structural equation modeling approach
... Women’s education was measured as a continuous variable representing the number of years that the woman attended school. Sociodemographic characteris- tics of women and households were included in the model as control ...
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Trends and drivers of skilled birth attendant use in Nigeria (1990–2013): policy implications for child and maternal health
... Data obtained from four consecutive Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey NDHS reports in 1990, 2003, 2008, and 2013 were pooled. NDHS is a cross-sectional, in design, routinely conducted, and nationally representative ...
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The relationship of women’s status and empowerment with skilled birth attendant use in Senegal and Tanzania
... In the survey, the total number of women (both currently married and unmarried) who gave birth during this period was 8148 in Senegal and 5349 in Tanzania. Questions on household decision-making participation were ...
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Can a community health worker and a trained traditional birth attendant work as a team to deliver child health interventions in rural Zambia?
... Save the Children in collaboration with the Boston University Center for Global Health and Development BU/CGHD and the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health MCDMCH, [r] ...
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From home deliveries to health care facilities: establishing a traditional birth attendant referral program in Kenya
... It is interesting to note that increased training of TBAs has not been shown to reduce maternal mortality during childbirth. A systematic review by Wilson et al. found that the strategy of training and support of ...
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Stakeholder views on the incorporation of traditional birth attendants into the formal health systems of low and middle income countries: a qualitative analysis of the HIFA2015 and CHILD2015 email discussion forums
... quality of care and reduce preventable morbidity and mor- tality. Forum members suggested, sometimes reluctantly, that TBAs are a readily available cadre which could bridge workforce gaps, at least in the short term. In ...
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Practices and determinants of delivery by skilled birth attendants in Bangladesh
... at birth is quite low in ...Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) is as high as 71% in Bangladesh ...Skilled Birth Attendant (CSBA) program to in- crease accessibility to skilled delivery at ...
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Characteristic of Households with Women Using Unskilled Birth Attendants in Urban Slum of Kisumu East District Nyalenda Community Unit
... skilled birth attendants that can provide Emergency obstetric ...unskilled birth attendants in urban slum of Nyalenda, kisumu, ...unskilled birth attendant odds ratio (OR) = ...
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Midwifery in India and its Roadmap
... Healthy women are the key to the health of any nation. Midwifery in India has climbed up the ladder of progression from before independence till the present day. In the pre- independence era, maternal and newborn care ...
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Capacity building of skilled birth attendants: A review of pre-service education curricula.
... None of the curricula reviewed showed articulation of the process for teaching the degree of autonomy, independent problem-solving and critical thinking that is currently required of a skilled birth ...
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Neonatal hypothermia and associated risk factors among newborns of southern Nepal
... after birth and during the postnatal period. These included: birth location; type of birth assistant (family member, traditional or trained birth attendant); timing of placental ...
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Development of the Community Midwifery Education initiative and its influence on women’s health and empowerment in Afghanistan: a case study
... 467 birth attendants with some level of training in Afghanistan, ranging from a few weeks to the two or more years required to be certified as a midwife or other skilled birth attendant ...
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Delivery Safety of Women from Tribal and Non-tribal Areas, in the State of Maharashtra, India
... In Nagpur district of Maharashtra unsafe deliveries were 13.5% [13]. From two tribal blocks in one tribal district in the state unsafe deliveries were 34.29% [16]. In slums from Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra State ...
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