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| Title |
Exploring inequalities in access to and use of maternal health services in South Africa
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-120 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sheetal P Silal, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Bronwyn Harris, Stephen Birch, Diane McIntyre |
| Abstract |
South Africa's maternal mortality rate (625 deaths/100,000 live births) is high for a middle-income country, although over 90% of pregnant women utilize maternal health services. Alongside HIV/AIDS, barriers to Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care currently impede the country's Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing child mortality and improving maternal health. While health system barriers to obstetric care have been well documented, "patient-oriented" barriers have been neglected. This article explores affordability, availability and acceptability barriers to obstetric care in South Africa from the perspectives of women who had recently used, or attempted to use, these services. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| Ireland | 1 | 20% |
| Denmark | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 507 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| South Africa | 2 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Botswana | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 494 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 110 | 22% |
| Researcher | 68 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 63 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 40 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 39 | 8% |
| Other | 82 | 16% |
| Unknown | 105 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 138 | 27% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 79 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 77 | 15% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 14 | 3% |
| Psychology | 13 | 3% |
| Other | 63 | 12% |
| Unknown | 123 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 10 December 2015.
All research outputs
#7,413,731
of 22,665,794 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,673
of 7,576 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#54,248
of 163,622 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#26
of 72 outputs
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