Time for action: Audit, accountability and confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in Nigeria
Improving access to maternity services: An overview of cash transfer and voucher schemes in South Asia
Assessing skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care in rural Tanzania: The inadequacy of using global standards and indicators to measure local realities
Giving birth: The voices of women in Tamil Nadu, India
Estimating coverage of a women’s group intervention among a population of pregnant women in rural Bangladesh
Perspective: A culture of respect, part 1: The nature and causes of disrespectful behavior by physicians
Trends and disparities in child mortality in India
Unwanted pregnancy and associated factors among pregnant married women in Hosanna Town, southern Ethiopia
A rapid assessment of the availability and use of obstetric care in Nigerian healthcare facilities
Improving quality of care for maternal and newborn health: Prospective pilot study of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program
Prevalence of malaria and anemia among pregnant women attending a traditional birth home in Benin City, Nigeria
Postpartum pituitary insufficiency and livedo reticularis presenting a diagnostic challenge in a resource limited setting in Tanzania: A case report, clinical discussion and brief review of existing literature
Pain management for women in labour: An overview of systematic reviews
Sterilization of women and girls with disabilities: A briefing paper
The facilitating factors and barriers encountered in the adoption of a humanized birth care approach in a highly specialized university affiliated hospital
The effects of group health education on childbearing knowledge, attitude and behaviour among Southeast Asian immigrant women in Taiwan
The sexual and reproductive health care market in Bangladesh: Where do poor women go?
Women’s preferences for obstetric care in rural Ethiopia: A population-based discrete choice experiment in a region with low rates of facility delivery
Facilitators and barriers in the humanization of childbirth practice in Japan
India’s Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer programme to increase births in health facilities: An impact evaluation
Humanized birth in high risk pregnancy: Barriers and facilitating factors
Women’s preferences for place of delivery in rural Tanzania: A population-based discrete choice experiment
Cultural adaptation of birthing services in rural Ayacucho, Peru
The natural caesarean: A woman-centred technique
Where to deliver? Analysis of choice of delivery location from a national survey in India
Caesarean delivery rates and pregnancy outcomes: The 2005 WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America
Nurses and doulas: Complementary roles to provide optimal maternity care
Violence against women in health-care institutions: An emerging problem
Why do nurses abuse patients? Reflections from South African obstetric services
Effects of psychosocial support during labour and childbirth on breastfeeding, medical interventions, and mothers’ wellbeing in a Mexican public hospital: A randomised clinical trial
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Antenatal care and opportunities for quality improvement of service provision in resource limited settings: A mixed methods study
Provision of medical supply kits to improve quality of antenatal care in Mozambique: A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial
Bridging the quality chasm in maternal, newborn, and child healthcare in low- and middle-income countries
An implementation algorithm to improve skin-to-skin practice in the first hour after birth
Using a quality improvement approach to improve maternal and neonatal care in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
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