Determinants of antenatal care, institutional delivery and postnatal care services utilization in Nigeria

T Dahiru, OM Oche - Pan African medical journal, 2015 - ajol.info
Introduction: Utilization of antenatal care, institutional delivery and postnatal care services in
Nigeria are poor even by african average. Methods: We analysed the 2013 Nigeria DHS to …

Effective coverage of maternal and neonatal healthcare services in low-and middle-income countries: a scoping review

AM Kassie, E Eakin, A Endalamaw, A Zewdie… - BMC Health Services …, 2024 - Springer
Background There is no consistent operationalization of effective coverage (EC) across
studies. Therefore, this scoping review synthesized evidence on the definitions and …

Skilled health personnel attended delivery as a proxy indicator for maternal and perinatal mortality: a systematic review

Y Berhan, A Berhan - Ethiopian journal of health sciences, 2014 - ajol.info
BACKGROUND: Several demographic and health surveys in Africa have shown the high
prevalence of home delivery, but little is known how strongly skilled person unattended …

Determinants of trends in neonatal, post-neonatal, infant, child and under-five mortalities in Tanzania from 2004 to 2016

FA Ogbo, OK Ezeh, AO Awosemo, IK Ifegwu, L Tan… - BMC public health, 2019 - Springer
Background Under-five mortality is still a major health issue in many developing countries
like Tanzania. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goal target of ending preventable …

Two decades of antenatal and delivery care in Uganda: a cross-sectional study using Demographic and Health Surveys

L Benova, ML Dennis, IL Lange, OMR Campbell… - BMC health services …, 2018 - Springer
Background Uganda halved its maternal mortality to 343/100,000 live births between 1990
and 2015, but did not meet the Millennium Development Goal 5. Skilled, timely and good …

Rainfall prediction using machine learning algorithms for the various ecological zones of Ghana

NKA Appiah-Badu, YM Missah, LK Amekudzi… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate rainfall prediction has become very complicated in recent times due to climate
change and variability. The efficiency of classification algorithms in rainfall prediction has …

Maternal and perinatal mortality by place of delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-analysis of population-based cohort studies

J Chinkhumba, M De Allegri, AS Muula, B Robberstad - BMC public health, 2014 - Springer
Background Facility-based delivery has gained traction as a key strategy for reducing
maternal and perinatal mortality in developing countries. However, robust evidence of …

Qualitative assessment of women's satisfaction with maternal health care in referral hospitals in Nigeria

F Okonofua, R Ogu, K Agholor, O Okike… - Reproductive health, 2017 - Springer
Background Available evidence suggests that the low use of antenatal, delivery, and post-
natal services by Nigerian women may be due to their perceptions of low quality of care in …

Determinants of early neonatal mortality in Afghanistan: an analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2015

GMA Kibria, V Burrowes, A Choudhury… - Globalization and …, 2018 - Springer
Background Neonatal mortality is declining slowly compared to under-five mortality in many
developing countries including Afghanistan. About three-fourths of these deaths occur in the …

Women empowerment and skilled birth attendance in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country analysis

KS Dickson, KS Adde, EK Ameyaw - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Introduction In 2017, the highest global maternal deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA). The WHO advocates that maternal deaths can be mitigated with the assistance of …