The article focuses on the importance of antenatal care (ANC) in improving maternal and newborn health, emphasizing the need for effective communication, comprehensive coverage, and standardized measurement systems to assess ANC quality. Topics include the essential parameters of ANC quality, the ...
Antenatal care (ANC)ANC initiationLiberiaLiberia has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios worldwide. Using quality antenatal care (ANC) can prevent maternal mortality. Indicators of quality ANC include: (1) timing of care initiation; (2) number of ANC visits (4+); and (3) ANC with...
Background: Antenatal care (ANC) visits provide an important opportunity for diagnostic, preventive, and curative services for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) during pregnancy. There is an identified need for an integrated, system-wide approach to provide both ANC and NCD services to improve materna...
Introduction: Antenatal care (ANC) is a medical care and procedure carried out for pregnant women. Data on ANC visits can help policymakers show gaps in service provision. Therefore, this study assessed the factors associated with the number of ANC visits among women in rural E...
Conclusions: ANC satisfaction in Nigeria may be enhanced by improving responsiveness to clients, clinical care quality, ensuring equipment availability, optimizing easy access to medicines, and expanding free ANC services. Keywords: Patient satisfaction, Antenatal care, Free care, Provider behavior, ...
Knowledge of interrelationships between early Antenatal Care (ANC), skilled delivery and early postnatal care (EPNC) is essential for focused and well-targeted interventions. This paper investigated the interconnectedness between maternal health services in Uganda. Objective This study examines the ...
Define Antenatal care. Antenatal care synonyms, Antenatal care pronunciation, Antenatal care translation, English dictionary definition of Antenatal care. n. The branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the r
3 Global Variation in Skill of ANC Providers Central to the provision of ANC is its delivery by skilled health-care professionals [3]. The benefits of ANC for the mother and child have been shown repeatedly to be higher when ANC is administered by trained health-care professionals, ...
Alongside improvements in service delivery, closing the gaps in access will require addressing the social determinants of reproduc- tive healthcare access, including education. While mater- nal education has been linked with receiving ANC, little research has examined whether specific education policy ...
Antenatal care (ANC) is one of the four pillars of the initiative for safe motherhood. ANC helps to improve the health of pregnant women and reduce the risk of adverse pregnancy outcome. First ANC is used to know the health status of the mothers and the