SynthesisInternational journal of public health2019
Indigenous women's access to maternal healthcare services in lower- and middle-income countries: a systematic integrative review.
Synthesis in International journal of public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mobile Health Interventions for Modifying Indigenous Maternal and Child-Health Related Behaviors: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interventions to improve rates of intravenous thrombolysis using behaviour change wheel functions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Implementation science : IS · 2020Pooled it
- Community-led solutions to promote safe institutional deliveries in scattered tribal settlements of Madhya Pradesh, India.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Healthcare Access for Older Indigenous Women in Latin America: A Scoping Review of Barriers, Facilitators, and Knowledge Gaps.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Review
- Community perspectives on access to healthcare for the Rama indigenous people, Nicaragua: the utility of Cultural Safety outside high-income countries.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Community engagement supports maternal health care attitudes and utilisation: mixed-method evaluation evidence from the CONNECT Initiative in Lao PDR.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Beyond disease burden: the urgent need to address maternal health disparities among Indigenous populations in Latin America.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Who are the women having non-institutional deliveries in Brazil and who attends them? An analysis of 13.7 million births, 2018-2022.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Sexual and reproductive health awareness and practices among adolescents and adults in a rural farming community in Baja California, Mexico: a quantitative and qualitative cross-sectional study.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2024Article
- Traditional Midwifery Contribution to Safe Birth in Cultural Safety: Narrative Evaluation of an Intervention in Guerrero, Mexico.Community health equity research & policy · 2024Article
- An Exploration of the Goodness of Fit of Web-Based Tools for Māori: Qualitative Study Using Interviews and Focus Groups.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Article
- Health insurance coverage and access to maternal healthcare services by women of reproductive age in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study.BMJ public health · 2023Article
- Structural racism and violence: Routine healthcare access in a cohort of marginalized Indigenous women and Two-Spirit Peoples during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Research square · 2023Article
- Uptake of antepartum care services in a matrilineal-matrilocal society: a study of Garo indigenous women in Bangladesh.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Child Marriage and Problems Accessing Healthcare in Adulthood: Evidence from India.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Maternal height associated with cesarean section. A cross-sectional study using the 2014-2015 national maternal-child health survey in Guatemala.International journal for equity in health · 2020Article
- How the choice of ethnic indicator influences ethnicity-based inequities in maternal health care in four Latin American countries: who is indigenous?International journal for equity in health · 2020Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesGlobally, Indigenous people have lower-health status compared to non-Indigenous people due to unequal access to health care. Barriers or enablers to accessing maternal health services by Indigenous women are not well researched. This review aims to determine accessibility and utilisation of maternal primary healthcare services among Indigenous women in lower- and middle-income countries.
methodsWe conducted a systematic integrative review of published and grey literature published between 2000 and 2017. Studies on maternal healthcare service utilisation by Indigenous women in lower- and middle-income countries were included. From 3092 articles identified, 10 met the eligibility criteria.
resultsThe most prominent barrier to accessing maternal primary healthcare services was the top-down nature of intervention programmes, which made programmes culturally unfriendly for Indigenous women. Distance, cost, transport, accommodation, language barriers and lack of knowledge about existing services also impacted access.
conclusionsFindings provided insights into understanding the gaps in existing policies for Indigenous women and their access to maternal health services. Results suggested that efforts be made to ensure appropriate programmes for Indigenous women's maternal health right.
Indexed as
Identifiers
30506363What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.