Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world. The Ebola virus disease outbreak further affected the already impaired health system, especially health care services to women and children. This chapter assesses the extent to which maternal and child hospital services were maintained during...
Sierra Leone鈥檚 recent health reforms risk being undermined by serious weaknesses in the health system that often result in pregnant women being unable to get free treatment, says a new report by Amnesty International.Despite important reforms begun over the past two years, including a free health...
Maternal education, residence, wealth index, parity, media exposure (to radio and television), enrolment in health insurance schemes, attitude towards wife beating, and autonomy in decision-making were identified as significant predictors of partial and adequate maternal health service uptake. Conclusion...
01 april 2022 socio-economic determinants of maternal health care utilization in kailahun district, sierra leone, 2020 desmond maada kangbai 1 , delia akosua bandoh 1 , alexander manu 2 , joetrice yewah kangbai 3 , ernest kenu 1 & … adolphina addo-lartey 2 show authors bmc ...
摘要: Sierra Leone is a country with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. The Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) of Sierra Leone recognises this problem and has developed, in collaboration with partners, the National Reproductive and Child Health...
SL:产妇死亡人数在12-01-2015达3,100.000人,相较于12-01-2014的3,200.000人有所下降。SL:产妇死亡人数数据按年更新,12-01-1990至12-01-2015期间平均值为4,650.000人,共26份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于12-01-1994,达5,200.000人,而历史最低值则出现于12-01-2015,为3,100.000人。CEIC提供的SL:...
I was born in Sierra Leone, in Jimmi Bagbo, a headquarter of Bargo Chiefdom. Jimmi can be accessed by 36 miles of dirt road from the nearest town of Bo. I grew up in a polygamous family and my mother was the last wife of my father. My mother is a homemaker who worked as a ...
To describe health seeking behaviour during pregnancy, for childbirth and in children under the age of five years, and to identify barriers to accessing and receiving healthcare services at the time of the study and since the start of the Ebola outbreak in an urban and rural area of Tonkolili...
The main reasons why pregnant women do not attend health centres to receive maternal-infant care, especially in rural areas, are the cost, fear, having previously received poor treatment, the waiting times, shame and the distance to the closest health centre. ...
The portal and dossier are an initiative of the 'MDG5 Meshwork for Improving Maternal Health', a cross-sector, cross-disciplinary network of organizations based in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and the Netherlands. The purpose of the Meshwork is to develop innovative and effective partnerships that ...