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BMJ Open
December 2024
Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Objective: Dose-response analysis of the effect of each additional contact where family planning (FP) was discussed during antenatal, delivery, postnatal or immunisation visits on the uptake of postpartum family planning (PPFP) within 12 months.
Design: A cohort where pregnant women were enrolled and reinterviewed approximately 12 months postpartum. Life table analyses examined differentials in probabilities of adopting contraception over 12 months postpartum by level of exposure to FP counselling.
J Family Med Prim Care
December 2024
Upgraded Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, K.G.M.U, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Context: Maternal and child health is an important public health issue which indicates the level of socioeconomic development in any country. Urban accredited social health activist (U-ASHA) workers in India are the main front-line urban health workers in primary health care delivery for slum and urban poor.
Aims: To assess the services provided by U-ASHA workers to mothers of urban slums for antenatal and postnatal care.
BMJ Open
January 2025
IMA World Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Objectives: To understand the current state of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) among internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and host communities in remote counties of Jonglei state.
Design: Cross-sectional, randomly sampled, mixed-methods, population-based household study.
Setting: Ayod, Nyirol, Fangak and Pigi counties of Jonglei, South Sudan.
BMJ Open
January 2025
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Salaya, Putthamonthon, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Objective: To assess the prevalence of non-utilisation of postpartum services in northwestern Nigeria from 2003 to 2018 and to identify and estimate the influence of social determinants, a crucial step in improving maternal and child health in the region.
Design: The 2003, 2008, 2013 and 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey rounds were used. Descriptive, trend and multivariable logistic regression analyses were used to show the trend and assess the influence of social determinants.
PLOS Glob Public Health
December 2024
Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.
Cervical cancer is a recognized preventable disease yet the fourth most common cancer among women globally. This study assessed the integration and acceptability of cervical cancer screening as part of routine sixth-week postnatal care among women attending a postnatal clinic. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study among 347 postpartum women who were attending their 6th-week postnatal visit.
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