Maternal Health Services

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Not too far to walk": the influence of distance on place of delivery in a western Kenya health demographic surveillance system. 
  • A mixed-method study of factors associated with differences in caesarean section rates at community level: the case of rural China. 
  • Access to essential maternal health interventions and human rights violations among vulnerable communities in eastern Burma. 
  • Accountable Care Reforms Improve Women's And Children's Health In Nepal. 
  • Achieving equity in maternal health in China: more to be done. 
  • Advancing obstetric and neonatal care in a regional hospital in Ghana via continuous quality improvement. 
  • An innovative intervention to improve respectful maternity care in three Districts in Ethiopia. 
  • Analysis of the equity of emergency medical services: a cross-sectional survey in Chongqing city. 
  • Changes and equity in use of maternal health care in China: from 1991 to 2003. 
  • Common mental disorders and intimate partner violence against pregnant women living with HIV in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis. 
  • Community-based delivery of maternal care in conflict-affected areas of eastern Burma: perspectives from lay maternal health workers. 
  • Do Maternity Care Coordination Services Encourage Use of Behavioral Health Treatment among Pregnant Women on Medicaid? 
  • Dramatic increase of Cesarean deliveries in the midst of health reforms in rural China. 
  • Effects of Tennessee Medicaid managed care on obstetrical care and birth outcomes. 
  • Factors affecting the implementation of health legislation and its impact on the rural poor in China: a case study of implementation of the maternal and infant health care law in two poor counties. 
  • Financing maternal and child health--what are the limitations in estimating donor flows and resource needs? 
  • Global economic consequences of selected surgical diseases: a modelling study. 
  • Helping nurse-midwives provide obstetrical care in rural North Carolina. 
  • Helping poor mothers and children. 
  • Impact of community-based maternal health workers on coverage of essential maternal health interventions among internally displaced communities in eastern Burma: the MOM project. 
  • Impact of financial and educational interventions on maternity care: results of cluster randomized trials in rural China, CHIMACA. 
  • Impact of medicaid managed care on utilization of obstetric care: evidence from TennCare's early years. 
  • Infant Mortality Lessons Learned from a Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program. 
  • Intimate partner and nonpartner violence against pregnant women in rural Haiti. 
  • Is your perinatal practice mother-friendly? A strategy for improving maternity care. 
  • Knowledge, attitudes, and practices in safe motherhood care among obstetric providers in Bugesera, Rwanda. 
  • Linking clinical and public health approaches to improve access to health care for socially disadvantaged mothers and children. A feasibility study. 
  • Managing perinatal data with the Regenstrief medical record system. 
  • Maternal cultural practices for neonates' care in upper Egypt. 
  • Maternal obesity, psychological factors, and breastfeeding initiation. 
  • Measuring the impact of a quality improvement collaboration to decrease maternal mortality in a Ghanaian regional hospital. 
  • Next generation maternal health: external shocks and health-system innovations. 
  • One state's response to the malpractice insurance crisis: North Carolina's Rural Obstetrical Care Incentive Program. 
  • Onset and persistence of postpartum depression in an inner-city maternal health clinic system. 
  • Patterns of Opioid Prescription and Use After Cesarean Delivery. 
  • Pay-for-performance and the Millennium Development Goals. 
  • Pregnancy outcomes among adolescent and older women receiving comprehensive prenatal care. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of depression among women attending antenatal care in Moshi, Tanzania: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of giving birth in health facilities in Bugesera District, Rwanda. 
  • Putting the "M" back in maternal-fetal medicine. 
  • Putting the "M" back in maternal-fetal medicine: A 5-year report card on a collaborative effort to address maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States. 
  • Reduction of Peripartum Racial and Ethnic Disparities: A Conceptual Framework and Maternal Safety Consensus Bundle. 
  • SMFM Special Report: Putting the "M" back in MFM: Addressing education about disparities in maternal outcomes and care. 
  • Strengthening maternal and child health in China: Lessons from transforming policy proposals into action. 
  • Telehealth in Maternity Care. 
  • The Effect of WIC on the Health of Newborns 
  • The Effects of Antenatal Depression and Women's Perception of Having Poor Health on Maternal Health Service Utilization in Northern Ghana. 
  • The MOM Project: delivering maternal health services among internally displaced populations in eastern Burma. 
  • The Maternal Health Compact. 
  • The challenges and opportunities of collaborative practice. 
  • The introduction of a midwife-led obstetric triage system into a regional referral hospital in Ghana. 
  • The role of the maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist in review and prevention of maternal deaths. 
  • The third delay: understanding waiting time for obstetric referrals at a large regional hospital in Ghana. 
  • Towards a global fund for the health MDGs? 
  • Utilisation of maternal health care in western rural China under a new rural health insurance system (New Co-operative Medical System). 
  • Utilisation, contents and costs of prenatal care under a rural health insurance (New Co-operative Medical System) in rural China: lessons from implementation. 
  • What We Can Do about Maternal Mortality - And How to Do It Quickly. 
  • What is quality in maternal and neonatal health care? 
  • When Women and Children Made the Policy Agenda - The Sheppard-Towner Act, 100 Years Later. 
  • Where do poor women in developing countries give birth? A multi-country analysis of demographic and health survey data. 
  • Women's health and pregnancy outcomes: do services make a difference? 
  • World Health Organization and knowledge translation in maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Covas, Tiffany, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine
  • Herring, Amy H, Sara and Charles Ayres Distinguished Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics