Objectives Collate published evidence of factors that affect maternal health in Indigenous
communities and contextualise the findings with stakeholder perspectives in the Mexican …

Background/objective Guatemala's indigenous Maya population has one of the highest
perinatal and maternal mortality rates in Latin America. In this population most births are …

The shortage of health workers worldwide has been identified as a barrier to achieving
targeted health goals. Task shifting has been recommended by the World Health …

Background Disrespectful and abusive maternity care is a common and pervasive problem
that disproportionately impacts marginalized women. By making mothers less likely to agree …

Most births on Finca San Luis and in the surrounding area occur at home, attended by a
comadrona. Before the 1990s María attended the majority of these. Since then, especially …

Background Many maternal and perinatal deaths in low-resource settings are preventable.
Inadequate access to timely, quality care in maternity facilities drives poor outcomes …

Existing models for language revitalization focus almost exclusively on language learning
and use. While recognizing the value of these models, we argue that their effective …

In low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the rates of maternal mortality continue
to be inappropriately high, there has been recognition of the importance of training …

Guatemala has the fourth highest infant mortality rate in Latin America, which makes the
support and protection of breastfeeding especially critical. Traditional health-promoting …

Technology provides the potential to empower frontline healthcare workers with low levels of
training and literacy, particularly in low-and middle-income countries. An obvious platform …