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The Latest Open Access News & Research

  • Interventions to Prevent Perinatal Depression US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
    US Preventive Task Force | February 2019
  • Pregnancy Outcomes in US Prisons, 2016–2017
    American Public Health Association | March 2019
  • The role of male partner in utilization of maternal health care services in Ethiopia: a community-based couple study
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2019
  • Prior dengue virus infection and risk of Zika: A pediatric cohort in Nicaragua
    PLOS Medicine | January 2019
  • Introduction of genomics into prenatal diagnostics
    The Lancet | January 2019
  • Temporal trends in spatial inequalities of maternal and newborn health services among four east African countries, 1999–2015
    BMC Public Health | December 2018
  • Health systems’ capacity to provide post-abortion care: a multicountry analysis using signal functions
    Lancet Global Health | November 2018
  • Perinatal outcomes in twin pregnancies complicated by maternal morbidity: Evidence from the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | November 2018
  • Methodological development of tools to measure how women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: labor observation and community survey
    BMC Medical Research Methodology | November 2018
  • Stillbirth among women in nine states in India: Rate and risk factors in study of 886,505 women from the annual health survey
    BMJ Open | November 2018
  • Emotional violence exerted by intimate partners and postnatal depressive symptoms among women in Vietnam: A prospective cohort study
    PLOS One | November 2018
  • Global, regional, and national estimates of levels of preterm birth in 2014: A systematic review and modelling analysis
    The Lancet | October 2018
  • Free contraception and behavioural nudges in the postpartum period: evidence from a randomised control trial in Nairobi, Kenya
    BMJ Global Health | October 2018
  • Population-based rates, timing, and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country prospective cohort study
    Lancet Global Health | December 2018
  • Contribution of social factors to maternal deaths in urban India: Use of care pathway and delay models
    PLOS One | October 2018
  • Measures matter: A scoping review of maternal and newborn indicators
    PLOS One | October 2018
  • Do women’s perspectives of quality of care during childbirth match with those of providers? A qualitative study in Uttar Pradesh, India
    Global Health Action | October 2018
  • Factors Associated with Breastfeeding Initiation and Continuation: A Meta-Analysis
    Journal of Pediatrics | October 2018
  • Addressing disrespect and abuse during childbirth in facilities
    Reproductive Health Matters | October 2018
  • Critical thinking in midwifery practice: A conceptual model
    Nurse Education in Practice | October 2018
  • Missed opportunities in antenatal care for improving the health of pregnant women and newborns in Geita district, Northwest Tanzania
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | October 2018
  • Health and sustainable development; strengthening peri-operative care in low income countries to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes
    Reproductive Health | October 2018
  • A reassessment of global antenatal care coverage for improving maternal health using sub-Saharan Africa as a case study
    PLOS One | October 2018
  • Two decades of antenatal and delivery care in Uganda: a cross-sectional study using Demographic and Health Surveys
    BMC Health Services Research | October 2018
  • Women suffer more from disrespectful and abusive care than from the labour pain itself: a qualitative study from Women’s perspective
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | October 2018
  • Disentangling the contributions of maternal and fetal factors to estimate stillbirth risks for intrapartum adverse events in Tanzania and Uganda
    International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics | October 2018
  • Reduced prevalence of small-for-gestational-age and preterm birth for women of low socioeconomic position: a population-based cohort study comparing antenatal midwifery and physician models of care
    BMJ Open | October 2018
  • Provision of Reproductive Healthcare to Women with Disabilities: A Survey of Obstetrician-Gynecologists’ Training, Practices, and Perceived Barriers
    Health Equity | October 2018
  • Retention of knowledge and skills after Emergency Obstetric Care training: A multi-country longitudinal study
    PLOS One | October 2018
  • Ugandan providers’ views on the acceptability of contraceptive self-injection for adolescents: a qualitative study
    Reproductive Health | October 2018
  • Overview of literature on RMC and applications to Tanzania
    Reproductive Health | October 2018
  • Childbirth fear and related factors among pregnant and postpartum women in Malawi
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | October 2018
  • Development of a measure of postpartum PTSD: The City Birth Trauma Scale
    Frontiers in Psychiatry | September 2018
  • “I should have started earlier, but I was not feeling ill!” Perceptions of Kalenjin women on antenatal care and its implications on initial access and differentials in patterns of antenatal care utilization in rural Uasin Gishu County Kenya
    PLOS One | October 2018
  • Tackling poorly selected, collected, and reported outcomes in obstetrics and gynecology research
    American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology | September 2018
  • Trends in pregnancy-associated mortality involving opioids in the United States, 2007–2016
    American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology | September 2018
  • Addressing maternal mortality: The pregnant cardiac patient
    American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology | September 2018
  • Logistical, cultural, and structural barriers to immediate neonatal care and neonatal resuscitation in Bihar, India
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2018
  • Experiences of women with cardiac disease in pregnancy: A systematic review and metasynthesis
    BMJ Open | September 2018
  • Providers adherence to essential contents of antenatal care services increases birth weight in Bahir Dar City Administration, north West Ethiopia: A prospective follow up study
    Reproductive Health | September 2018
  • Welcoming transgender and nonbinary patients: expanding the language of “women’s health”
    American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology | September 2018
  • Intermittent screening and treatment or intermittent preventive treatment compared to current policy of single screening and treatment for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy in Eastern Indonesia: Acceptability among health providers and pregnant women
    Malaria Journal | September 2018
  • Should prenatal care providers offer pregnancy options counseling?
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2018
  • Essential newborn care practices and associated factors among home delivered mothers in Damot pulasa Woreda, southern Ethiopia
    Reproductive Health | September 2018
  • Influenza and Tdap vaccination coverage among pregnant women – United States, April 2018
    Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) | September 2018
  • Husbands’ knowledge and attendance at wives’ postpartum care among rural farmers
    Health Care for Women International | September 2018
  • Determinants of frequency and contents of antenatal care visits in Bangladesh: Assessing the extent of compliance with the WHO recommendations
    PLOS One | September 2018
  • An unexpected, yet welcomed outcome of the St. Louis healthy start program
    Maternal and Child Health Journal | September 2018
  • Multiple morbidities in pregnancy: Time for research, innovation, and action
    PLOS Medicine | September 2018
  • Association of men’s exposure to family planning programming and reported discussion with partner and family planning use: The case of urban Senegal
    PLOS One | September 2018
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