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| Marge KoblinskySummaryAffiliation: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Country: Bangladesh Publications
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Questioning the indicators of need for obstetric careCarine Ronsmans
Maternal Health Programme, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
Bull World Health Organ 80:317-24. 2002..In this paper we review indicators of service use and need for obstetric care, and briefly discuss data collection issues...
Going to scale with professional skilled careMarge Koblinsky
ICDDR, B, Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Lancet 368:1377-86. 2006..Teams of providers are the efficient option, creating the possibility of scaling up as much as 10 times more quickly than would be the case with deployment of solo health workers in home deliveries with dedicated or multipurpose workers...
Reproductive and newborn healthMarge Koblinsky
J Health Popul Nutr 24:377-9. 2006
Reducing maternal mortality and improving maternal health: Bangladesh and MDG 5Marge Koblinsky
ICDDR, B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
J Health Popul Nutr 26:280-94. 2008..Strengthening other supportive services, including family planning and delayed first birth, menstrual regulation, and education of women, are also important for achieving MDG 5...
Quality of obstetric care in public-sector facilities and constraints to implementing emergency obstetric care services: evidence from high- and low-performing districts of BangladeshIqbal Anwar
Public Health Sciences Division, ICDDR, B, G P O Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
J Health Popul Nutr 27:139-55. 2009..While the centralized push system of management has its strengths, special strategies for improving the response in the low-performing areas is urgently warranted...
Public-sector maternal health programmes and services for rural BangladeshMalay Kanti Mridha
Public Health Sciences Division, ICDDR, B, G P O Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
J Health Popul Nutr 27:124-38. 2009....
Violence against women with chronic maternal disabilities in rural BangladeshRuchira T Naved
ICDDR, B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
J Health Popul Nutr 30:181-92. 2012....
Postpartum haemorrhage and eclampsia: differences in knowledge and care-seeking behaviour in two districts of BangladeshNahid Kalim
Public Health Sciences Division, ICDDR, B, G P O Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
J Health Popul Nutr 27:156-69. 2009....
Costs of maternal health-related complications in BangladeshMohammad Enamul Hoque
ICDDR, B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
J Health Popul Nutr 30:205-12. 2012..However, families coped up with loss of resources by taking loans and selling assets, and by the end of six months postpartum, the households had paid back more than 40% of the loans...
An examination of women experiencing obstetric complications requiring emergency care: perceptions and sociocultural consequences of caesarean sections in BangladeshRasheda Khan
ICDDR, B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
J Health Popul Nutr 30:159-71. 2012..While greater access to surgical interventions may be lifesaving, policy-makers need to institute mechanisms to discourage the over-medicalization of childbirth in a context where the use of caesarean section is rapidly rising...
Causes of maternal mortality decline in Matlab, BangladeshMahbub Elahi Chowdhury
Public Health Sciences Division, ICDDR, B, G P O Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
J Health Popul Nutr 27:108-23. 2009..To achieve the Millenium Development Goal 5 targets, policies that bring further improved comprehensive EmOC, strengthened family-planning services, and expanded education of females are essential...
Profile of maternal and foetal complications during labour and delivery among women giving birth in hospitals in Matlab and Chandpur, BangladeshFauzia Akhter Huda
ICDDR, B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
J Health Popul Nutr 30:131-42. 2012....
Psychological and social consequences among mothers suffering from perinatal loss: perspective from a low income countryKaniz Gausia
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
BMC Public Health 11:451. 2011..This paper reports the impact of perinatal death on psychological status and social consequences among mothers in a rural area of Bangladesh...
Determinants of reduction in maternal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh: a 30-year cohort studyMahbub Elahi Chowdhury
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B
Lancet 370:1320-8. 2007..We examined and compared trends in maternal mortality in two adjacent areas over 30 years, by separate analyses of causes of death, underlying sociodemographic determinants, and areas and time periods in which interventions differed...
Patterns of maternal care seeking behaviours in rural BangladeshAllisyn C Moran
Project for Advancing Health of Newborns and Mothers PROJAHNMO, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Trop Med Int Health 12:823-32. 2007..This study examined definitions of care seeking for maternal health complications used by families in rural Bangladesh, and the frequency and determinants of locally-defined care seeking practices...
Women's descriptions of postpartum health problems: preliminary findings from Matlab, BangladeshLynn M Sibley
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Midwifery Womens Health 52:351-60. 2007..The overall approach may be used to develop or improve birth preparedness and complication readiness, a core global safe motherhood intervention...
Does traditional birth attendant training improve referral of women with obstetric complications: a review of the evidenceLynn Sibley
Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, Emory University, 1520 Clifton Road, Suite 344, Atlanta, GA 30309, USA
Soc Sci Med 59:1757-68. 2004..We suggest a more promising research agenda would reposition the questions surrounding referral into a broader ecological perspective...
Does traditional birth attendant training increase use of antenatal care? A review of the evidenceLynn M Sibley
Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Midwifery Womens Health 49:298-305. 2004..There is an urgent need to improve capacity for evaluation and research of the effect of TBA training programs and other factors that influence women's use of ANC services...
Trends in stillbirths, early and late neonatal mortality in rural Bangladesh: the role of public health interventionsCarine Ronsmans
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 22:269-79. 2008....
