ArticleReproductive health2018
Improving pregnancy outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Respectful Maternal Care Experience in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Pooled it
- Routine vaginal examinations compared to other methods for assessing progress of labour to improve outcomes for women and babies at term.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
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- A multilevel analysis of the predictors of health facility delivery in Ghana: Evidence from the 2014 Demographic and Health Survey.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Efficacy of mHealth Interventions for Improving Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes Among Pregnant Women With Hypertensive Disorders: Protocol for a Systematic Review.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Impact of quality improvement interventions on facility readiness, quality and uptake of maternal and child health services in developing regions of Ethiopia: a secondary analysis of programme data.BMJ open quality · 2023Article
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Abstract
This paper reviews the very large discrepancies in pregnancy outcomes between high, low and middle-income countries and then presents the medical causes of maternal mortality, stillbirth and neonatal mortality in low-and middle-income countries. Next, we explore the medical interventions that were associated with the very rapid and very large declines in maternal, fetal and neonatal mortality rates in the last eight decades in high-income countries. The medical interventions likely to achieve similar declines in pregnancy-related mortality in low-income countries are considered. Finally, the quality of providers and the data to be collected necessary to achieve these reductions are discussed. It is emphasized that single interventions are unlikely to achieve important reductions in pregnancy-related mortality. Instead, improving the overall quality of pregnancy-related care across the health-care system will be necessary. The conditions that cause maternal mortality also cause stillbirths and neonatal deaths. Focusing on all three mortalities together is likely to have a larger impact than focusing on one of the mortalities alone.
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