Abstract Background Since 2000, the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, which
included a goal to improve maternal health by the end of 2015, has facilitated significant …

Background Several years in advance of the 2015 endpoint for the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), Malawi was already thought to be one of the few countries in sub-Saharan …

Background: Maternal mortality is a major challenge to health systems in Low and Middle-
Income Countries (LMICs) where almost 99% of maternal deaths occurred in 2015. Primary …

Health systems are dynamic complex adaptive systems, where all parts need to be
considered. These parts are (i) the inter-relationships between the patient, clinical and …

Background Postpartum maternal and infant mortality is high in sub-Saharan Africa and
improving postpartum care as a strategy to enhance maternal and infant health has been …

Background In Malawi, maternal mortality remains high. Existing maternal death reviews fail
to adequately review most deaths, or capture those that occur outside the health system. We …

Background A variety of clinical process indicators exists to measure the quality of care
provided by maternal and neonatal health (MNH) programs. To allow comparison across …

Saving Mothers, Giving Life is a multidonor program designed to reduce maternal mortality
in Uganda and Zambia. We used a quasi-random research design to evaluate its effects on …

The aim of the study was to develop nursing management protocol for maternity nurses
regarding obstetric emergencies. An intervention (quasi experimental) study design was …

Background Kenya did not meet its maternal mortality ratio (MMR) target under the
Millennium Development Goals. The aim of this study was to examine the gaps in …