Obstetric mortality and its causes in developing countries

Barns, Tom

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1991.tb13422.x

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“…As noted in the statistics above, the status of child health is poor in developing countries. This situation has been reported to indicate the widening discrepancy in the level of care and the outcome of reproduction between advanced and developing countries (Barns, 1991;Starrs, 1998). Gaps, therefore,persist between evidence and practice in both developed and developing countries (Villar et al, 2001).…”

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Birth outcomes among booked and unbooked women at a secondary health facility in southwest Nigeria

Osungbade

Ayinde²

2011

J Child Health Care

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A case-controlled analytic study involving 406 singleton unbooked and 396 singleton booked births was conducted. Unbooked births constituted 16.6% of all births during the study. Booked births were half as likely to preterm than unbooked births (43, 10.9% vs 81, 20.0%; p<0.001). Unbooked births were seven times more likely to be stillbirth than booked births (80, 17.7% vs 13, 3.3%; p< 0.001). Booked births were a third as likely to have a low birth weight as unbooked births (36, 9.1% vs 104, 25.6%; p< 0.001). Unbooked births had a significantly lower mean birth weight of 2.95 ± 0.53 kg than 3.08 ± 0.45 kg of booked births (p< 0.001). Unbooked births had a significantly lower mean Apgar score at 1 minute and 5 minutes than booked births (6.64 ± 1.42 vs 7.08 ± 1.12 and 9.16 ± 1.40 vs 9.64 ± 1.00; p< 0.001) respectively. Unbooked births are common and their birth outcomes may result in high morbidity and disability, thereby contributing to the high child mortality in developing countries. Strengthening perinatal health services through professional skilled care at birth and providing quality services for all unbooked births may lead to improved birth outcomes.

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Birth outcomes among booked and unbooked women at a secondary health facility in southwest Nigeria

Osungbade

Ayinde²

2011

J Child Health Care

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“…There are claims that deliveries assisted by relatives and TBAs take place in unhygienic conditions and often lead to infection in mothers and newborn babies (the World Bank 1996). TBAs have been accused of creating or even compounding problems of infections at home deliveries (Adamson 1996;Barns 1991;Boerma 1987;Feyi-Waboso 1989). However.…”

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Birthing Practices of Traditional Birth Attendants in South Asia in the Context of Training Programmes

Saravanan¹,

Turrell

Johnson

et al. 2010

Journal of Health Management

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Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) training has been an important component of public health policy interventions to improve maternal and child health in developing countries since the 1970s. More recently, since the 1990s, the TBA training strategy has been increasingly seen as irrelevant, ineffective or, on the whole, a failure due to evidence that the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in developing countries had not reduced. Although, worldwide data show that, by choice or out of necessity, 47 percent of births in the developing world are assisted by TBAs and/or family members, funding for TBA training has been reduced and moved to providing skilled birth attendants for all births. Any shift in policy needs to be supported by appropriate evidence on TBA roles in providing maternal and infant health care service and effectiveness of the training programmes.This article reviews literature on the characteristics and role of TBAs in South Asia with an emphasis on India. The aim was to assess the contribution of TBAs in providing maternal and infant health care service at different stages of pregnancy and after-delivery and birthing practices adopted in home births. The review of role revealed that apart from TBAs, there are various other people in the community also involved in making decisions about the welfare and health of the birthing mother and new born baby. However, TBAs have changing, localised but nonetheless signifi cant roles in delivery, postnatal and infant care in India. Certain traditional birthing practices such as bathing babies immediately after birth, not weighing babies after birth and not feeding with colostrum are adopted in home births as well as health institutions in India. There is therefore a thin precarious balance between Acknowledgements: Dr Carla Patterson was involved in conceptualizing the PhD thesis. Sadly she passed away in August 2005 and was unable to share the results of her study.

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“…2 Tal fato não aconteceu em países em desenvolvimento, de tal forma que a quase totalidade das mortes maternas vem ocorrendo justamente nesses países. 3,4 A World Health Organization (WHO), em conjunto com o United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), estimou para o ano de 1990 um total de 585.000 e para 2000 cerca de 529.000 mortes maternas no mundo, sendo 99% dessas em países do chamado "Terceiro Mundo" 5,6 o que sugere a morte materna como um indicador sensível das desigualdades sociais mundialmente existentes. Destaca-se que não há outro indicador de saúde pública que mostre maior disparidade entre os países, em função de sua riqueza e desenvolvimento, que a mortalidade materna.…”

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Sistemas de informação em saúde e monitoramento de morbidade materna grave e mortalidade materna

Sousa

Cecatti

Hardy

et al. 2006

Rev. Bras. Saude Mater. Infant.

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Obstetric mortality and its causes in developing countries

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Birth outcomes among booked and unbooked women at a secondary health facility in southwest Nigeria

Birth outcomes among booked and unbooked women at a secondary health facility in southwest Nigeria

Birthing Practices of Traditional Birth Attendants in South Asia in the Context of Training Programmes

Sistemas de informação em saúde e monitoramento de morbidade materna grave e mortalidade materna

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