Kate Ramsey

TL;DR: Between 19% and 28% of women in eight facilities in northeastern Tanzania experienced disrespectful and/or abusive treatment from health providers during childbirth, which requires urgent solutions both to ensure women's right to dignity in health care and to improve effective utilization of facilities for childbirth in order to reduce maternal mortality.

TL;DR: This aim is based on a decade of epide-miological work identifying causes of death, systematically reviewing effective interventions, and modelling the impact of intervention coverage on mortality.

TL;DR: The Tanzania Connect Project is a randomized cluster trial located in three rural districts with a population of roughly 360,000 and aims to test whether introducing a community health worker into a general program of health systems strengthening and referral improvement will reduce child mortality, improve access to services, expand utilization, and alter reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health seeking behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the association between reported disrespectful treatment during childbirth and delivery satisfaction, perceived quality of care, and intention to deliver at the same facility in the future.

TL;DR: Inadequately stocked and equipped facilities compromise the health system’s ability to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity by affecting staff personally and professionally, which hinders the provision of timely and appropriate interventions.