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| Title |
Challenges in delivery of skilled maternal care – experiences of community midwives in Pakistan
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2393-14-59 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mariyam Sarfraz, Saima Hamid |
| Abstract |
Maternal mortality ratio in Pakistan remains high at 276 per 100000 live births (175 in the urban areas and 319 in rural) with a mother dying as a result of giving birth every 20 minutes. Despite the intervening years since the Safe Motherhood Initiative launch and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there have been few improvements in MDGs 4 and 5 in Pakistan. A key underlying reason is that only 39% of the births are attended by skilled birth attendants. Pakistan, like many other developing countries has been struggling to make improvements in maternal and neonatal health, amongst other measures, which include a nationwide health infrastructure network. Recently, government of Pakistan revised its maternal and newborn health program and introduced a new cadre of community based birth attendants, called community midwives (CMW), trained to conduct home-based deliveries. There is limited research available on field experiences of community midwives as maternal health care providers. Formative research was designed and conducted in a rural district of Pakistan with the objective of exploring role of CMWs as home based skilled service providers and the challenges they face in provision of skilled maternal care. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 13 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 23% |
| Pakistan | 3 | 23% |
| Ireland | 1 | 8% |
| South Africa | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 5 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 85% |
| Scientists | 2 | 15% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 200 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 197 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 47 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 10% |
| Researcher | 18 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 16 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 7% |
| Other | 35 | 18% |
| Unknown | 50 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 50 | 25% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 31 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 29 | 14% |
| Unspecified | 7 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 18 | 9% |
| Unknown | 60 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 06 May 2021.
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#2,390,271
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Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#647
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#29,507
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#22
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