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| Title |
Why do women prefer home births in Ethiopia?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2393-13-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Solomon Shiferaw, Mark Spigt, Merijn Godefrooij, Yilma Melkamu, Michael Tekie |
| Abstract |
Skilled attendants during labor, delivery, and in the early postpartum period, can prevent up to 75% or more of maternal death. However, in many developing countries, very few mothers make at least one antenatal visit and even less receive delivery care from skilled professionals. The present study reports findings from a region where key challenges related to transportation and availability of obstetric services were addressed by an ongoing project, giving a unique opportunity to understand why women might continue to prefer home delivery even when facility based delivery is available at minimal cost. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 518 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 2 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 510 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 129 | 25% |
| Researcher | 57 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 53 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 45 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 36 | 7% |
| Other | 82 | 16% |
| Unknown | 116 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 152 | 29% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 108 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 61 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 3% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 10 | 2% |
| Other | 51 | 10% |
| Unknown | 121 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 May 2019.
All research outputs
#1,206,461
of 23,323,574 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#265
of 4,290 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,474
of 288,046 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#7
of 85 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 4,290 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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