Provider Barriers to and Women’s Perceptions of Respectful Maternity Care in a Refugee Camp Setting in Thailand
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015
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Disrespect and Abuse: Do Poor Kenyan Women Suffer More?
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015
Background: Financial barriers (formal and informal) continue to deter pregnant women from seeking care, but fear of disrespect and abuse (D&A) during facility-based…
Inequities in Continuum of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Healthcare Services Utilization in Rural Districts of Ethiopia
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015
Background: The “Continuum of Care” for maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) includes integrated service delivery for mothers and children from pre-pregnancy…
Regional Task Force on Maternal Mortality Reduction and Neonatal Alliance Collaborative Monitoring Tool for Mortality Surveillance
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015
Background: Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality persists as one of the most important challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Women and newborns continue to…
“She Is My Neighbor": The Persistence of Traditional Birth Attendants in Poor Urban Areas of Cairo
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015
As cities become more populated and also more inequitable, ensuring access to quality health services is becoming a critical urban health challenge, in particular addressing…
A Scoping of the Status of MNH for the Urban Poor
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015
Background: By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas and nearly 90% of this growth will be in Africa and Asia. In LMICs, over 860 million people…
Maternal and Neonatal Health in the Urban Slums of Bangladesh: Approaches of the Manoshi Program
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015
Background: By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas and nearly 90% of this growth will be in Africa and Asia. In LMICs, over 860 million people…
High Resolution Mapping of Skilled Birth Attendance in East Africa
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015
Background: Early adolescent pregnancy presents a major barrier to the health and wellbeing of young women and their children, as recognised by international agreements and…
Adapting the Reaching Every District (RED) Strategy in Reducing Unmet Need for Family Planning Among Disadvantaged Women in Mongolia
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
The RED strategy, originally introduced in Mongolia by WHO and UNICEF to improve immunization coverage was adapted for meeting sexual and reproductive health needs of the…
The Utility of a Realist Evaluation Approach in Interrogating Implicit Assumptions of Maternal Health Interventions: Ensuring Equity and Human Rights of Marginalized Communities in Maternal Health Programming
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
All programs make implicit assumptions that are critical to the successful implementation of the program. Taking a realist evaluation approach, we interrogate assumptions in…