Problem: Maternal and neonatal mortality remains high in low- and middle-income countries, with poor quality of … intrapartum care as a barrier to further progress. Approach: We developed and tested a method of measuring the quality of maternal … visits to the 18 lead hospitals that have responsibility to promote and coordinate quality improvement efforts within a …

care for maternal and newborn health at health-facility level in low- and middle-income settings. Methods: Six of the … indicators are about maternal health, five are for newborn health and four are general cross-cutting indicators. We used data …

minor (1,358 injuries) or fatal (4,111 deaths). The most frequent allegation was of lack of consent or notification (1 … 2010 to 6,947 in 2014. Most cases related to general surgery (1,350 litigations), internal medicine (3,500 litigations …), obstetrics and gynaecology (1,251 litigations) and orthopaedics (1,283 litigations). Most of the reported injuries were either …

on the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Using data from … US$5 billion on maternal, newborn, and child health before 2015. Following the end of the Millennium Development Goals … Metrics and Evaluation, this study analyses the effects of aid on maternal health in a sample of 130 low- and middle-income …

physicians and nurses or between better- and less-equipped clinics. Private facilities outperformed public facilities. Country … care was higher in better-staffed and -equipped facilities and lower for physicians and clinical officers than nurses … care (first visits) and for sick-child visits. We assessed national, facility, provider and patient factors that might …

Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it … mortality. The historical decline made feasible by the introduction of antibiotics was significantly greater in states that had …

changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support. Second, I look at neonatal … mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health services), concentrating on the countries that increased their health …, Rwanda, and Malawi, budget support did have a positive effect on health spending and, except for Rwanda, neonatal mortality …

Workers, as well as increased utilization of pre- and post-natal care by pregnant women. In contrast, the quality of supra …

explaining the sustained income growth Africa has experienced since 1995. The paper also shows that the effects of income per … capita and child mortality on fertility rates are non-robust and inconsistent with the predictions of the unified growth …

Patient safety is a global public health issue, causing death and suffering in all types of patients and incurring … of health services. Here, we propose that narratives or mental models are reasons for the limited progress. In this paper …