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  1. The Every Newborn...Action Plan (ENAP), launched in 2014, aims to end preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths, with national targets of ≤12 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births and ≤12 stillbirths per 1000 tot...

    Authors: Sarah G Moxon, Harriet Ruysen, Kate J Kerber, Agbessi Amouzou, Suzanne Fournier, John Grove, Allisyn C Moran, Lara ME Vaz, Hannah Blencowe, Niall Conroy, A Metin Gülmezoglu, Joshua P Vogel, Barbara Rawlins, Rubayet Sayed, Kathleen Hill, Donna Vivio…
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15(Suppl 2):S8
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2

  2. An estimated two-thirds of the world's 2.7 million newborn deaths could be prevented with quality care at birth and during the postnatal period. Basic Newborn Care (BNC) is part of the solution and includes hy...

    Authors: Christabel Enweronu-Laryea, Kim E Dickson, Sarah G Moxon, Aline Simen-Kapeu, Christabel Nyange, Susan Niermeyer, France Bégin, Howard L Sobel, Anne CC Lee, Severin Ritter von Xylander and Joy E Lawn
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15(Suppl 2):S4
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2

  3. Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of deaths for children under five years. Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are effective at reducing mortality and serious morbidity amongst infants born at <34 ...

    Authors: Grace Liu, Joel Segrè, A Metin Gülmezoglu, Matthews Mathai, Jeffrey M Smith, Jorge Hermida, Aline Simen-Kapeu, Pierre Barker, Mercy Jere, Edward Moses, Sarah G Moxon, Kim E Dickson, Joy E Lawn and Fernando Althabe
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15(Suppl 2):S3
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2

  4. Good outcomes during pregnancy and childbirth are related to availability, utilisation and effective implementation of essential interventions for labour and childbirth. The majority of the estimated 289,000 m...

    Authors: Gaurav Sharma, Matthews Mathai, Kim E Dickson, Andrew Weeks, G Justus Hofmeyr, Tina Lavender, Louise Tina Day, Jiji Elizabeth Mathews, Sue Fawcus, Aline Simen-Kapeu and Luc de Bernis
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15(Suppl 2):S2
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2

  5. The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) and Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality targets cannot be achieved without high quality, equitable coverage of interventions at and around the time of birth. This paper p...

    Authors: Kim E Dickson, Mary V Kinney, Sarah G Moxon, Joanne Ashton, Nabila Zaka, Aline Simen-Kapeu, Gaurav Sharma, Kate J Kerber, Bernadette Daelmans, A Metin Gülmezoglu, Matthews Mathai, Christabel Nyange, Martina Baye and Joy E Lawn
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15(Suppl 2):S1
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2

  6. The quality of antenatal care is recognized as critical to the effectiveness of care in optimizing maternal and child health outcomes. However, research has been hindered by the lack of a theoretically-grounde...

    Authors: Wendy Sword, Maureen Heaman, Mary Anne Biro, Caroline Homer, Jane Yelland, Noori Akhtar-Danesh and Amanda Bradford-Janke
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:214
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  7. There is some evidence to suggest that within the household, family and community settings, women in sub-Saharan Africa often have limited autonomy and control over their reproductive health decisions. However...

    Authors: John Kuumuori Ganle, Bernard Obeng, Alexander Yao Segbefia, Vitalis Mwinyuri, Joseph Yaw Yeboah and Leonard Baatiema
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:173
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  8. Stillbirth occurring after 28 weeks gestation affects between 1.5–4.5 per 1,000 births in high-income countries. The majority of stillbirths in this setting occur in women without risk factors. In addition, ma...

    Authors: Jane Warland, Louise M. O’Brien, Alexander E. P. Heazell and Edwin A. Mitchell
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:172
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  9. Increasing the coverage of skilled attendance at births in a health facility (facility delivery) is crucial for saving the lives of mothers and achieving Millennium Development Goal five. Cambodia has signific...

    Authors: Por Ir, Catherine Korachais, Kannarath Chheng, Dirk Horemans, Wim Van Damme and Bruno Meessen
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:170
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  10. Maternal mortality remains unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa with 179,000 deaths occurring each year, accounting for 2-thirds of maternal deaths worldwide. Progress in reducing maternal deaths and increa...

    Authors: Kyoko Shimamoto and Jessica D. Gipson
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:154
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  11. Evidence suggests that increasing male involvement in maternal and newborn health (MNH) may improve MNH outcomes. However, male involvement is difficult to measure, and further research is necessary to underst...

    Authors: Frances Ampt, Myo Myo Mon, Kyu Kyu Than, May May Khin, Paul A. Agius, Christopher Morgan, Jessica Davis and Stanley Luchters
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:122
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  13. This paper identifies patterns of health inequalities (consistency and magnitude) of socioeconomic disparities for multiple maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes that represent different health care needs o...

    Authors: Nihaya Daoud, Patricia O’Campo, Anita Minh, Marcelo L Urquia, Susie Dzakpasu, Maureen Heaman, Janusz Kaczorowski, Cheryl Levitt, Janet Smylie and Beverley Chalmers
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 14:393
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  14. Shortages of staff have a significant and negative impact on maternal outcomes in low-income countries, but the impact on obstetric care providers in these contexts is less well documented. Despite the governm...

    Authors: Susan Bradley, Francis Kamwendo, Effie Chipeta, Wanangwa Chimwaza, Helen de Pinho and Eilish McAuliffe
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:65
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  15. Continuum of care throughout pregnancy, birth, and after delivery has become a key program strategy for improving the health of mothers and newborns. Successful program implementation to improve the continuum ...

    Authors: Wenjuan Wang and Rathavuth Hong
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:62
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  16. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) of India aims to increase the uptake of safe and institutional delivery among rural communities to improve maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) outcomes. Previous...

    Authors: Sharon G Bruce, Andrea K Blanchard, Kaveri Gurav, Anuradha Roy, Krishnamurthy Jayanna, Haranahalli L Mohan, Banadakoppa M Ramesh, James F Blanchard, Stephen Moses and Lisa Avery
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:49
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  17. Childbirth at health facilities is an important strategy to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality, improve fetal outcomes, and reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Although access to antenatal care in...

    Authors: John Kinuthia, Pamela Kohler, John Okanda, George Otieno, Frank Odhiambo and Grace John-Stewart
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:46
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. The Northern Territory has the highest rates of perinatal morbidity and mortality in Australia. Placental histopathology has not been studied in this high-risk group of women.

    Authors: Cecelia M O’Brien, Susan Arbuckle, Sujatha Thomas, Jurgen Rode, Robin Turner and Heather E Jeffery
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:32
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  19. Armed conflict has been described as an important contributor to the social determinants of health and a driver of health inequity, including maternal health. These conflicts may severely reduce access to mate...

    Authors: Primus Che Chi, Patience Bulage, Henrik Urdal and Johanne Sundby
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:18
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  20. In many low-income countries, formal post-partum care utilization is much lower than that of skilled delivery and antenatal care. While Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) might play a role in post-partum care...

    Authors: Gladys R Mahiti, Angwara D Kiwara, Columba K Mbekenga, Anna-Karin Hurtig and Isabel Goicolea
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:8
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  21. Depression in pregnancy increases the risk of complications for mother and child. Few studies are done in ethnic minorities. We wanted to identify the prevalence of depression in pregnancy and associations wit...

    Authors: Nilam Shakeel, Malin Eberhard-Gran, Line Sletner, Kari Slinning, Egil W Martinsen, Ingar Holme and Anne Karen Jenum
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:5
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  22. To reduce financial barriers to access, and improve access to and use of skilled maternal and newborn healthcare services, the government of Ghana, in 2003, implemented a new maternal healthcare policy that pr...

    Authors: John Kuumuori Ganle, Michael Parker, Raymond Fitzpatrick and Easmon Otupiri
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:425
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  23. More women with an increased risk of poor pregnancy outcome due to pre-existing medical conditions are becoming pregnant. Although clinical care provided through multi-disciplinary team (MDT) working is recomm...

    Authors: Debra Bick, Sarah Beake, Lucy Chappell, Khaled M Ismail, David R McCance, James SA Green and Cath Taylor
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:428
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  24. Immigrant women may be regarded as a vulnerable population with respect to access and navigation of maternity care services. They may encounter difficulties when accessing culturally safe and appropriate mater...

    Authors: Gina MA Higginbottom, Helen Vallianatos, Joan Forgeron, Donna Gibbons, Fabiana Mamede and Rubina Barolia
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:370
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  25. In Ghana, the site of this study, the maternal mortality ratio and under-five mortality rate remain high indicating the need to focus on maternal and child health programming. Ghana has high use of antenatal c...

    Authors: Ilene S Speizer, William T Story and Kavita Singh
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:398
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  26. Antenatal care is of core importance for maternal and child health and is therefore a central aspect of mother and child health care. One of the main goals of effective screening in antenatal care is the detec...

    Authors: Sinja Alexandra Ernst, Anna Reeske, Jacob Spallek, Knud Petersen, Tilman Brand and Hajo Zeeb
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:371
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  27. Maternity care reform plans have been proposed at state and national levels in Australia, but the extent to which these respond to maternity care consumers’ expressed needs is unclear. This study examines open...

    Authors: Loretta C McKinnon, Samantha J Prosser and Yvette D Miller
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:366
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  28. A substantial reduction in neonatal deaths is required in India to meet the Millennium Development Goal of a two-thirds reduction in child mortality by 2015. We report neonatal mortality estimates and utilisat...

    Authors: G Anil Kumar, Rakhi Dandona, Priyanka Chaman, Priyanka Singh and Lalit Dandona
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:357
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  29. Cultural practice have often overlooked when providing maternal and child health care services. Low birth weight is the second cause of neonatal mortality in the world but it is a major factor in a developing ...

    Authors: Rosnah Sutan and Satrinawati Berkat
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:342
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  30. Maternal mortality remains high in sub-Saharan Africa. Health facility intra-partum strategies with skilled birth attendance have been shown to be most effective to address maternal mortality. In Zambia, the h...

    Authors: Selia Ng’anjo Phiri, Knut Fylkesnes, Ana Lorena Ruano and Karen Marie Moland
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:323
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  31. Empirical evidence regarding maternal quality and safety outcomes across heterogeneous Asian and Pacific Islanders subgroups in the United States is limited, despite the importance of this topic to health disp...

    Authors: Tetine Sentell, Ann Chang, Yongjun Cheng and Jill Miyamura
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:298
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  32. Improving maternal and reproductive health still remains a major challenge in most low-income countries especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The growing inequality in access to maternal health interventions is an...

    Authors: Benedict O Asamoah, Anette Agardh, Karen Odberg Pettersson and Per-Olof Östergren
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:295
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  33. Interventions to reduce maternal mortality have focused on delivery in facilities, yet in many low-resource settings rates of facility-based birth have remained persistently low. In Tanzania, rates of facility...

    Authors: Shannon A McMahon, Asha S George, Joy J Chebet, Idda H Mosha, Rose NM Mpembeni and Peter J Winch
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:268
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  34. Over the last decades there has been a reduction of social inequalities in Brazil, as well as a strong expansion of health services, including prenatal care. The objective of the present study was to estimate ...

    Authors: Ariane Cristina Ferreira Bernardes, Raimundo Antonio da Silva, Liberata Campos Coimbra, Maria Teresa Seabra Soares de Britto Alves, Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Rosângela Fernandes Lucena Batista, Heloisa Bettiol, Marco Antônio Barbieri and Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:266
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  35. Birth weight reflects gestational conditions and development during the fetal period. Low birth weight (LBW) may be associated with antenatal care (ANC) adequacy and quality. The purpose of this study was to a...

    Authors: Cátia Regina Branco da Fonseca, Maria Wany Louzada Strufaldi, Lídia Raquel de Carvalho and Rosana Fiorini Puccini
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:255
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  36. Persistent disparities in pregnancy and birth outcomes between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other Australians evidence a need to prioritise responsive practice in Maternal Child Health (MCH). This...

    Authors: Crystal Jongen, Janya McCalman, Roxanne Bainbridge and Komla Tsey
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:251
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  37. Improving the quality of care women receive during childbirth is as important as ensuring increased availability of care and numbers of healthcare providers. To be able to improve quality of care, it is import...

    Authors: Elizabeth O’Donnell, Bettina Utz, Diana Khonje and Nynke van den Broek
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:248
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  38. Maternal mortality continues to be a heavy burden in low and middle income countries where half of all deliveries take place in homes without skilled attendance. The study aimed to investigate the underlying a...

    Authors: Selia Ng’anjo Phiri, Torvid Kiserud, Gunnar Kvåle, Jens Byskov, Bjørg Evjen-Olsen, Charles Michelo, Elizabeth Echoka and Knut Fylkesnes
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:219
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  39. Through the World Health Assembly Resolution, ‘Health of Migrants’, the international community has identified migrant health as a priority. Recommendations for general hospital care for international migrants...

    Authors: Anita J Gagnon, Rebecca DeBruyn, Birgitta Essén, Mika Gissler, Maureen Heaman, Zeinab Jeambey, Dineke Korfker, Christine McCourt, Carolyn Roth, Jennifer Zeitlin and Rhonda Small
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:200
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  40. Ethiopia has one of the highest maternal mortality in the world. Institutional delivery is the key intervention in reducing maternal mortality and complications. However, the uptake of the service has remained...

    Authors: Seifu Hagos, Debebe Shaweno, Meselech Assegid, Alemayehu Mekonnen, Mesganaw Fantahun Afework and Saifuddin Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:178
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  41. Understanding immigrant women’s experiences of maternity care is critical if receiving country care systems are to respond appropriately to increasing global migration. This systematic review aimed to compare ...

    Authors: Rhonda Small, Carolyn Roth, Manjri Raval, Touran Shafiei, Dineke Korfker, Maureen Heaman, Christine McCourt and Anita Gagnon
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:152
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  42. To address it's persistently high maternal mortality rate of 276/100,000 live births, the government of Pakistan created a new cadre of community based midwives (CMW). One expectation is that CMWs will improve...

    Authors: Zubia Mumtaz, Andrea Cutherell and Afshan Bhatti
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:131
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  43. Caesarean section (CS) rates especially without medical indication are rising worldwide. Most of indications for CS are relative and CS rates for various indications vary widely. There is an increasing tendency t...

    Authors: Sari Räisänen, Mika Gissler, Michael R Kramer and Seppo Heinonen
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:120
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  44. Many forum members indicated that they were supportive of trained TBAs being involved in the provision of pregnancy care. Members noted that TBAs were already frequently used by women and that alternative options...

    Authors: Onikepe Oluwadamilola Owolabi, Claire Glenton, Simon Lewin and Neil Pakenham-Walsh
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:118
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  45. Good quality antenatal care (ANC) reduces maternal and neonatal mortality and improves health outcomes, particularly in low-income countries. Quality of ANC is measured by three dimensions: number of visits, t...

    Authors: Chandni Joshi, Siranda Torvaldsen, Ray Hodgson and Andrew Hayen
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:94
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  48. To reduce its high maternal and neonatal mortality rate and meet Millennium Development Goals four and five, Lao PDR has adopted a national ‘Strategy and Planning Framework of Implementation of Maternal, Neona...

    Authors: Vanphanom Sychareun, Sysavanh Phommachanh, Soudavanh Soysouvanh, Chaeun Lee, Minah Kang, Juhwan Oh and Jo Durham
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2013 13:243
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  49. Severe vitamin D deficiency can impair muscle strength. The study aims were to examine physical performance in the hands and upper legs, and analyze plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations in women...

    Authors: Paul Kalliokoski, Yngve Bergqvist and Monica Löfvander
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2013 13:237
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  50. In northern Vietnam the Neonatal health - Knowledge Into Practice (NeoKIP, Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN44599712) trial has evaluated facilitation as a knowledge translation intervention to improve neonatal...

    Authors: Leif Eriksson, Duong M Duc, Ann Catrine Eldh, Vu Pham N Thanh, Tran Q Huy, Mats Målqvist and Lars Wallin
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2013 13:234
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