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Latest Maternal Health Research

  • Validation of the person-centered maternity care scale in India
    Reproductive Health | August 2018
  • Dietary intake and beliefs of pregnant women with gestational diabetes in Cape Town, South Africa
    Nutrients | August 2018
  • Placenta accreta: Importance of a multidisciplinary approach in the Colombian hospital setting
    The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine | August 2018
  • Expanding the agenda for addressing mistreatment in maternity care: A mapping review and gender analysis
    Reproductive Health | August 2018
  • Could postnatal women’s groups be used to improve outcomes for mothers and children in high-income countries? A systematic review
    Download PDF Maternal and Child Health Journal | August 2018
  • Obstetrics knowledge and skills training as a catalyst for change
    The South African Medical Journal | August 2018
  • Litigating to ensure access to quality maternal health care for women and girls in Kenya
    Reproductive Health Matters | August 2018
  • Women’s perspectives of mistreatment during childbirth at health facilities in Ghana: Findings from a qualitative study
    Reproductive Health Matters | August 2018
  • Maternal infection during pregnancy and type 1 diabetes mellitus in offspring: A systematic review and meta-analysis
    Epidemiology & Infection | August 2018
  • Breastfeeding in low-resource settings: Not a “small matter”
    PLOS Medicine | August 2018
  • Maternal views on facilitators of and barriers to breastfeeding preterm infants
    BMC Pediatrics | August 2018
  • Health visitors’ perceptions on their role to assess and manage postpartum depression cases in the community
    Health & Social Care in the Community | August 2018
  • Cost-effectiveness of a mentorship and quality improvement intervention to enhance the quality of antenatal care at rural health centers in Rwanda
    International Journal for Quality in Health Care | August 2018
  • Changing patterns of contraceptive use and the decline in rates of pregnancy and birth among U.S. adolescents, 2007–2014
    Journal of Adolescent Health | August 2018
  • The severity and management of complications among postabortion patients treated in Kinshasa health facilities
    International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health | August 2018
  • Women’s perceived barriers to giving birth in health facilities in rural Kenya: A qualitative evidence synthesis
    Midwifery | August 2018
  • Nurse and physician reflections on the application of a quality standards training program to reduce maternal mortality
    Midwifery | August 2018
  • Interventions for perinatal depression in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review
    Asian Journal of Psychiatry | August 2018
  • Learning from the experience of maternity healthcare workers in Malawi: A qualitative study leading to ten low-cost recommendations to improve working lives and quality of care
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2018
  • Contraceptive use and unintended pregnancy among young women and men in Accra, Ghana
    PLOS One | August 2018
  • Reproductive health problems in rural South African young women: Risk behaviour and risk factors
    Reproductive Health | August 2018
  • Planned, unplanned, and in-between: the meaning and context of pregnancy planning for young people
    Contraception | August 2018
  • Treatments for women with gestational diabetes mellitus: An overview of Cochrane systematic reviews
    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | August 2018
  • Disrespect and abuse in childbirth in Brazil: Social activism, public policies and providers’ training
    Reproductive Health Matters | August 2018
  • Adapting the Quality Maternal and Newborn Care (QMNC) Framework to evaluate models of antenatal care: A pilot study
    PLOS One | August 2018
  • Metrics of survival: Post-abortion care and reproductive rights in Senegal
    Medical Anthropology | August 2018
  • Beyond the Safe Motherhood Initiative: Accelerated action urgently needed to end preventable maternal mortality
    Global Health: Science and Practice | August 2018
  • Population-level factors associated with maternal mortality in the United States, 1997–2012
    BMC Public Health | August 2018
  • Knowledge, attitude and practice towards family planning among reproductive age women in a resource limited settings of Northwest Ethiopia
    BMC Research Notes | August 2018
  • Reproductive coercion and women’s health
    Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health | August 2018
  • Identifying disrespect and abuse in organisational culture: A study of two hospitals in Mumbai, India
    Reproductive Health Matters | August 2018
  • Adolescent parenthood associated with adverse socioeconomic outcomes at age 30 years in women and men of the Pelotas, Brazil: 1982 Birth Cohort Study
    BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | August 2018
  • Parents’ and healthcare professionals’ experiences of care after stillbirth in low and middle‐income countries: A systematic review and metasummary’
    BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | August 2018
  • Systematic review and meta‐analysis of diagnosing gestational diabetes mellitus with one‐step or two‐step approaches and associations with adverse pregnancy outcomes
    International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics | August 2018
  • Stillbirth and preterm birth and associated factors in one of the largest cities in central Vietnam
    Acta Paediatrica | August 2018
  • Sexual violence–related pregnancy among internally displaced women in an internally displaced persons camp in northeast Nigeria
    Journal of Interpersonal Violence | August 2018
  • Perinatal HIV service coordination: Closing gaps in the HIV care continuum for pregnant women and eliminating perinatal HIV transmission in the United States
    Public Health Reports | August 2018
  • Incremental treatment costs for HIV-infected women initiating antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy: A 24-month micro-costing cohort study for a maternal and child health clinic in Kenya
    PLOS One | August 2018
  • Systematic review of community participation interventions to improve maternal health outcomes in rural South Asia
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth |
  • Elevating mothers’ voices: Recommendations for improved patient-centered postpartum
    Journal of Behavioral Medicine | August 2018
  • HIV testing during pregnancy for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Ethiopia
    PLOS One | August 2018
  • Trends and factors associated with pregnancies among adolescent women in Nepal: Pooled analysis of Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys (2006, 2011 and 2016)
    PLOS One | August 2018
  • Does fathers’ prenatal mental health bear a relationship to parenting stress at 6 months?
    Infant Mental Health Journal | August 2018
  • Labor induction versus expectant management in low-risk nulliparous women
    The New England Journal of Medicine | August 2018
  • Providing postpartum care with limited resources: Experiences of nurse-midwives and obstetricians in urban Tanzania
    Women and Birth | August 2018
  • Group prenatal visits: Maternal and neonatal health outcomes
    Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health | August 2018
  • Predictors of optimal antenatal care service utilization among adolescents and adult women in Bangladesh
    SAGE | July 2018
  • Nursing and midwifery: Key to implementing alma-ata 40 years on
    Health Systems & Reform | August 2018
  • Late antenatal care initiation: The case of public health centers in Ethiopia
    BMC Research Notes | August 2018
  • Use of contraceptives and uptake of long-acting reversible contraception among postpartum women in rural China
    BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health | August 2018
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