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Latest Maternal Health Research

  • Quality of obstetric care in public-sector facilities and constraints to implementing emergency obstetric care services: Evidence from high- and low-performing districts of Bangladesh
    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition | April 2009
  • Pregnancy-associated malaria in a rural community of Ghana
    Ghana Medical Journal | March 2009
  • Community-based promotional campaign to improve uptake of intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment in pregnancy in Burkina Faso
    American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | March 2009
  • Insecticide-treated nets for preventing malaria in pregnancy
    International Journal of Epidemiology | February 2009
  • Assessment of insecticide-treated bednet use among children and pregnant women across 15 countries using standardized national surveys
    American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | February 2009
  • Community-based distribution of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy improved coverage but reduced antenatal attendance in southern Malawi
    Tropical Medicine & International Health | February 2009
  • Estimating the burden of malaria in pregnancy: A case study from rural Madhya Pradesh, India
    Malaria Journal | February 2009
  • Rural Gambian women's reliance on health workers to deliver sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine as recommended intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy
    Malaria Journal | February 2009
  • Free distribution of insecticide treated bed nets to pregnant women in Kinshasa: An effective way to achieve 80% use by women and their newborns
    Tropical Medicine & International Health | January 2009
  • Effects of maternal Plasmodium falciparum malaria and HIV infection on birth weight in southeastern Nigeria
    McGill Journal of Medicine | January 2009
  • Interventions to address maternal, newborn and child survival: What difference can integrated primary health care strategies make?
    The Lancet | September 2008
  • Maternal mortality in South Africa in 2001: From demographic census to epidemiological investigation
    Population Health Metrics | August 2008
  • Can early postpartum home visits by trained community health workers improve breastfeeding of newborns?
    Journal of Perinatology | July 2008
  • The natural caesarean: A woman-centred technique
    BJOG | June 2008
  • Effect of postnatal home visits on maternal/infant outcomes in Syria: A randomized controlled trial
    Public Health Nursing | February 2008
  • Where to deliver? Analysis of choice of delivery location from a national survey in India
    BMC Public Health | January 2008
  • Generation of political priority for global health initiatives: A framework and case study of maternal mortality
    The Lancet | October 2007
  • Policy maker and health care provider perspectives on reproductive decision-making amongst HIV-infected individuals in South Africa
    BMC Public Health | October 2007
  • Use of a clean delivery kit and factors associated with cord infection and puerperal sepsis in Mwanza, Tanzania
    Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health | August 2007
  • Effect of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance on the efficacy of intermittent preventive therapy for malaria control during pregnancy: A systematic review
    JAMA | June 2007
  • Are two doses of misoprostol after mifepristone for early abortion better than one?
    BJOG | March 2007
  • Rates of caesarean section: Analysis of global, regional and national estimates
    Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | February 2007
  • Epidemiology and burden of malaria in pregnancy
    The Lancet Infectious Diseases | February 2007
  • Socioeconomic differentials in caesarean rates in developing countries: A retrospective analysis
    The Lancet | October 2006
  • Strategies for reducing maternal mortality: Getting on with what works
    The Lancet | October 2006
  • Caesarean delivery rates and pregnancy outcomes: The 2005 WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America
    The Lancet | June 2006
  • Nurses and doulas: Complementary roles to provide optimal maternity care
    JOGNN | April 2006
  • Evaluation of the effectiveness of a clean delivery kit intervention in preventing cord infection and puerperal sepsis among neonates and their mothers in rural Mwanza Region, Tanzania
    Tanzania Health Research Bulletin | September 2005
  • Acceptability and use of clean home delivery kits in Nepal: A qualitative study
    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition | December 2003
  • A rapid assessment approach for public health decision-making related to the prevention of malaria during pregnancy
    Bulletin of the World Health Organization | July 2003
  • Violence against women in health-care institutions: An emerging problem
    The Lancet | May 2002
  • Why do nurses abuse patients? Reflections from South African obstetric services
    Social Science & Medicine | December 1998
  • Effects of psychosocial support during labour and childbirth on breastfeeding, medical interventions, and mothers’ wellbeing in a Mexican public hospital: A randomised clinical trial
    BJOG | October 1998
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