Publicaties
Obstetric transition in the World Health Organization multicountry survey on maternal and newborn health: exploring pathways for maternal mortality reduction Universiteit Gent
Social determinants of maternal health: a scoping review of factors influencing maternal mortality and maternal health service use in India Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Background Maternal health remains a major public health problem in India, with large inter- and intra-state inequities in maternal health service use and maternal deaths. The Commission on Social Determinants of Health provides a framework to identify structural and intermediary factors of health inequities, including maternal health, and understand their mechanism of influence, which might be important in addressing maternal health ...
Mapping maternal mortality rate via spatial zero-inflated models for count data: A case study of facility-based maternal deaths from Mozambique Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
Implementing a maternal mortality surveillance system in Morocco - challenges and opportunities Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Country experience with strengthening of health systems and deployment of midwives in countries with high maternal mortality Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
This paper complements the other papers in the Lancet Series on midwifery by documenting the experience of low-income and middle-income countries that deployed midwives as one of the core constituents of their strategy to improve maternal and newborn health. It examines the constellation of various diverse health-system strengthening interventions deployed by Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Morocco, among which the scaling up of the ...