Pregnant women's perceptions of antenatal care and utilisation of digital health tools in Magu District, Tanzania: a qualitative study.

Antenatal care is essential to promote maternal health. Prior research has focused on barriers women face to attending antenatal care, and improving quality of care is seen as a precondition for better attendance. Digital health tools are seen as a promising instrument to increase the quality of healthcare.

Understanding women's decision-making process for birth location in Tanzania based on individual women's reproductive pathways: a life-course perspective.

Background: Determinants for women's care seeking for birth in low-income setting are multifactorial and remain poorly understood. A life course approach can assist to structure the interplay of the different factors that lead to women seeking care or not.

Objective: In this study we aimed to explore individual women's reproductive pathways, and increase understanding of how important life events including previous pregnancy and birth experiences can help us to understand individual choices made for care seeking during childbirth.

Symphysis-fundal height, gestational age and its value for identification of foetuses at risk in rural Tanzania: A qualitative follow-up study.

Preterm birth and abnormal foetal growth increase the risk of perinatal morbidity and mortality. Timely identification of foetuses at risk is critical to improving maternal and neonatal outcomes. The objective of this study was to increase understanding of the quality of foetal growth monitoring during antenatal care in Tanzania.

The Development of an Electronic Clinical Decision and Support System to Improve the Quality of Antenatal Care in Rural Tanzania: Lessons Learned Using Intervention Mapping.

It is widely recognised that high quality antenatal care is a key element in maternal healthcare. Tanzania has a very high maternal mortality ratio of 524 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Most maternal deaths are due to preventable causes that can be detected during pregnancy, and antenatal care therefore plays an important role in reducing maternal morbidity and mortality.

Mobilizing community action to improve maternal health in a rural district in Tanzania: lessons learned from two years of community group activities.

: Community participation can provide increased understanding and more effective implementation of strategies that seek to improve outcomes for women and newborns. There is limited knowledge on how participatory processes take place and how this affects the results of an intervention. : This paper presents the results of two years of implementing (2013-2015) community groups for maternal health care in Magu District, Tanzania.

Disrespect and abuse in maternity care: individual consequences of structural violence.

Disrespect and abuse of patients, especially birthing women, does occur in the health sector. This is a violation of women's fundamental human rights and can be viewed as a consequence of women's lives not being valued by larger social, economic and political structures. Here we demonstrate how such disrespect and abuse is enacted at an interpersonal level across the continuum of care in Tanzania.

Antenatal care and opportunities for quality improvement of service provision in resource limited settings: A mixed methods study.

Antenatal care is essential to improve maternal and newborn health and wellbeing. The majority of pregnant women in Tanzania attend at least one visit. Since implementation of the focused antenatal care model, quality of care assessments have mostly focused on utilization and coverage of routine interventions for antenatal care.