Background For every maternal death, 20 to 30 women are estimated to have morbidities
related to pregnancy or childbirth. Much of this burden of disease is in women in low- and …

… Following childbirth, women need to stay sufficiently long in … stay following childbirth in low-
and middle-income countries … of stay following childbirth focuses on high-income countries, …

… women's reports, nor did we expect most women to know or recall the exact qualification of
their birth attendant 26. Finally, the DHS did not collect the sector of practice for professionals …

… In middle-income country Suriname we studied all hospital births to describe childbirth
outcomes and to discover inequities by ethnicity. In 2016 and 2017, 18.290 women gave birth to a …

… We coded the stratifying variable for the place and mode of childbirth as “vaginal birth at a
facility (VBF)”, “caesarean section birth (CSB) “, and “vaginal birth at home (VBH)”. We used …

… childbirth… women and their families to believe that childbirth has become medicalized
and dehumanized. When faced with the prospect of facility birth, women in low- and middle-income …

… review explored women’s needs during childbirth globally in … were conducted in high and
middle-income countries, and it … of women in SSA LLMICs and what women regard as quality …

… , postnatal weight gain and adult body composition in five low and middle income countries.
… pressure in five low and middle income country cohorts: When does weight gain matter?. …

… (1) An expansion of investment in mid-level facilities for delivery services and a shift away
from low-volume rural delivery facilities. (2) Assured access for rural women through funding …

… women in four low and middle income countries have experienced mistreatment around the
time of childbirth… The research, led by the World Health Organization, included women aged …