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Can she make it? Transportation barriers to accessing maternal and child health care services in rural Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, August 2015
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Title
Can she make it? Transportation barriers to accessing maternal and child health care services in rural Ghana
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12913-015-1005-y
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Authors

Kilian Nasung Atuoye, Jenna Dixon, Andrea Rishworth, Sylvester Zackaria Galaa, Sheila A. Boamah, Isaac Luginaah

Abstract

The Ghana Community based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) strategy targets to bring health services to the doorsteps of clients in a manner that improves maternal and child health outcomes. In this strategy, referral is an important component but it is threatened in a rural context where transportation service is a problem. Few studies have examined perceptions of rural dwellers on transportation challenges in accessing maternal health care services within CHPS. Using the political ecology of health framework, this paper investigates transportation barriers in health access in a rural context based on perceived cause, coping mechanisms and strategies for a sustainable transportation system. Eight (8) focus group discussions involving males (n = 40) and females (n = 45) in rural communities in a CHPS zone in the Upper West Region of Ghana were conducted between September and December 2013. Lack of vehicular transport is suppressing the potential positive impact of CHPS on maternal and child health. Consistent neglect of road infrastructural development and endemic poverty in the study area makes provision of alternative transport services for health care difficult. As a result, pregnant women use risky methods such as bicycle/tricycle/motorbikes to access obstetric health care services, and some turn to traditional medicines and traditional birth attendants for maternal health care services. These findings underscore the need for policy to address rural transport problems in order to improve maternal health. Community based transport strategy with CHPS is proposed to improve adherence to referral and access to emergency obstetric services.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Uganda 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 622 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 140 22%
Student > Bachelor 73 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 62 10%
Researcher 41 7%
Student > Postgraduate 37 6%
Other 90 14%
Unknown 184 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 131 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 94 15%
Social Sciences 90 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 3%
Arts and Humanities 16 3%
Other 79 13%
Unknown 201 32%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 08 December 2023.
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#1,575,249
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Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#536
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#6
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