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| Title |
Delivering at home or in a health facility? health-seeking behaviour of women and the role of traditional birth attendants in Tanzania
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| Published in |
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2393-13-55 |
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| Authors |
Constanze Pfeiffer, Rosemarie Mwaipopo |
| Abstract |
Traditional birth attendants retain an important role in reproductive and maternal health in Tanzania. The Tanzanian Government promotes TBAs in order to provide maternal and neonatal health counselling and initiating timely referral, however, their role officially does not include delivery attendance. Yet, experience illustrates that most TBAs still often handle complicated deliveries. Therefore, the objectives of this research were to describe (1) women's health-seeking behaviour and experiences regarding their use of antenatal (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC); (2) their rationale behind the choice of place and delivery; and to learn (3) about the use of traditional practices and resources applied by traditional birth attendants (TBAs) and how they can be linked to the bio-medical health system. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 387 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 3 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 2 | <1% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 374 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 97 | 25% |
| Researcher | 46 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 42 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 35 | 9% |
| Other | 70 | 18% |
| Unknown | 55 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 123 | 32% |
| Social Sciences | 58 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 57 | 15% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 4% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 11 | 3% |
| Other | 56 | 14% |
| Unknown | 67 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 26 April 2023.
All research outputs
#6,046,748
of 24,661,808 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#1,514
of 4,604 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#46,482
of 197,327 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#34
of 88 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,661,808 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 75th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,604 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
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