A Lancet Commission on 70 years of women's reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health in China

J Qiao, Y Wang, X Li, F Jiang, Y Zhang, J Ma, Y Song… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Women's reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health
(RMNCAH) is a cornerstone for the healthy development of the next generation and a …

Effectiveness of strategies to improve health-care provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

AK Rowe, SY Rowe, DH Peters, KA Holloway… - The Lancet Global …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Inadequate health-care provider performance is a major challenge to the
delivery of high-quality health care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). The …

[HTML][HTML] Implicit bias in healthcare: clinical practice, research and decision making

DP Gopal, U Chetty, P O'Donnell, C Gajria… - Future healthcare …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bias is the evaluation of something or someone that can be positive or negative, and implicit
or unconscious bias is when the person is unaware of their evaluation. This is particularly …

Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a novel analysis …

RM Barber, N Fullman, RJD Sorensen, T Bollyky… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be
approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the …

Burden of surgical site infection following cesarean section in sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review

A Sway, P Nthumba, J Solomkin… - … journal of women's …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Cesarean section (CS) is the most common operative procedure performed in sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA), accounting for as much as 80% of the surgical workload. In contrast to CSs …

Ugandan health workers' and mothers' views and experiences of the quality of maternity care and the use of informal solutions: a qualitative study

S Munabi-Babigumira, C Glenton, M Willcox… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Although the coverage of maternity services in some low and middle-income
countries (LMIC) has greatly improved, the quality of maternity care remains poor, and …

Maternal death and obstetric care audits in Nigeria: a systematic review of barriers and enabling factors in the provision of emergency care

J Hussein, A Hirose, O Owolabi, M Imamura… - Reproductive health, 2016 - Springer
Background Maternal death reviews and obstetric audits identify causes and circumstances
related to occurrence of a maternal death or serious complication and inform improvements …

Causes and contributing factors of maternal mortality in Bosaso District of Somalia. A retrospective study of 30 cases using a Verbal Autopsy approach

JA Aden, HJ Ahmed, PO Östergren - Global health action, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Somali women suffer from one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the
world. Somalia characterises a specific low-income country situation with a mix of newly …

A systematic review of the effectiveness of strategies to improve health care provider performance in low-and middle-income countries: methods and descriptive …

SY Rowe, DH Peters, KA Holloway, J Chalker… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Health care provider (HCP) performance in low-and middle-income countries
(LMICs) is often inadequate. The Health Care Provider Performance Review (HCPPR) is a …

Causes of maternal deaths and delays in care: comparison between routine maternal death surveillance and response system and an obstetrician expert panel in …

A Said, M Malqvist, AB Pembe, S Massawe… - BMC Health Services …, 2020 - Springer
Background To reduce maternal mortality Tanzania introduced Maternal Death Surveillance
and Response (MDSR) system in 2015 as recommended by World Health Organization …