Acceptability of evidence-based neonatal care practices in rural Uganda - implications for programming.
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...These are some of the practices we have found to be deficient in this setting (Waiswa et al. 2008, Waiswa et al. 2010)....
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...We examined demand for care through published literature on barriers and facilitators to care-seeking (Waiswa et al. 2008; Waiswa et al. 2010b; Waiswa et al. 2010c) and through newborn messages and scope of the national behaviour change communication strategy (Newborn Steering Committee 2010)....
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...Ideas about the purpose of ANC services influenced ANC attendance [55,70,80]: women viewed ANC as providing treatment rather than prevention, and only attended when ill....
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...Waisa and colleagues also reported that diseases during pregnancy tend to be treated at first with herbs in the home prior to seeking assistance at the clinic [70]....
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...Several studies identified obtaining the maternity (or health or ANC) card as a factor that motivated women to attend a health facility for ANC [55,56,57,65,67,70,71]....
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...2008 [70] Obtaining the ‘‘maternity’’ card motivated women to attend a health facility for ANC....
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...In Uganda, pregnant women did not view ANC clinics as offering disease prevention, but attended ANC services when ill [55,70]....
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...Mothers apply substances to the cord for several reasons, including to “help the cord heal fast” so that they can go back to their domestic chores [17]....
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...These findings concur with those of a study done in two districts of eastern Uganda where stock out of maama kits was a common occurrence and a barrier for women to deliver at health facilities [27]....
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...Most of these maternal and newborn deaths are caused by preventable causes [4,7]....
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...Initiatives to scale-up the recommended practices for improving neonatal health in Sub-Saharan Africa should follow rapid appraisal and adaptation of packages to address the local health system and socio-cultural situation....
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...However, it is not clear how feasible and locally acceptable these recommended practices are, or which delivery strategies to use in SubSaharan Africa (SSA)....
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...In addition, over 515,000 women die from pregnancyrelated complications each year, about half in Africa [6]....
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...Scale-up of the evidence based practices for maternal-neonatal health in Sub-Saharan Africa should follow rapid appraisal and adaptation of intervention packages to address the local health system and socio-cultural situation....
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...Most of these maternal and newborn deaths are caused by preventable causes [4,7]....
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