[1]
|
United Nations Population Fund (2012) Skilled attendance at birth.
http://www.unfpa.org/public/mothers/pid/4383
|
[2]
|
The World Bank (2012) Over 99 percent of maternal deaths occur in developing countries. The World Bank, Washington DC.
|
[3]
|
World Health Organization (2007) International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems. 10th Edition, World Health Organization, Geneva.
|
[4]
|
Killewo, J., Anwar, I. Bashir, I., et al. (2006) Perceived delay in healthcare-seeking for episodes of serious illness and its implications for safe motherhood interventions in rural Bangladesh. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 24, 403-412.
|
[5]
|
Thaddeus, S. and Maine, D. (1994) Too far to walk: Maternal mortality in context. Social Science & Medicine, 56, 1091-109. doi:10.1016/0277-9536(94)90226-7
|
[6]
|
UNFPA (2012) Emergency obstetric care: Reducing life-threatening delay.
http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/mothers/pid/4385
|
[7]
|
United Nations (2006) The millenium development goals report 2006. United Nations, New York.
|
[8]
|
Central Statistical Agency [Ethiopia] and ICF International (2012) Ethiopia demographic and health survey 2011. Central Statistical Agency and ICF International, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Calverton, Maryland, USA.
|
[9]
|
Odogwu, K., Audu, O., et al. (2010) Availability and utilization of emergency obstetric care services in three communities in Kaduna State, Northern Nigeria. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 14, 83-88.
|
[10]
|
Cham, M., Sundby, J. and Vangen, S. (2005) Maternal mortality in the rural Gambia, a qualitative study on access to emergency obstetric care. Reproductive Health, 2, 3.
|
[11]
|
Fotso, J., Ezeh, A. and Essendi, H. (2009) Maternal health in resource-poor urban settings: How does women’s autonomy influence the utilization of obstetric care services? Reproductive Health, 6, 9. doi:10.1186/1742-4755-6-9
|
[12]
|
Tabatabaie, M.G., et al. (2012) Home birth and barriers to referring women with obstetric complications to hospitals: A mixed methods study in Zahedan, southeastern Iran. Reproductive Health, 9, 5. doi:10.1186/1742-4755-9-5
|
[13]
|
Okour, A.M., Khade, Y., Amarin, Z., et al. (2012) Maternal mortality in Jordan: Role of substandard care and delays. EMHJ, 18, 426-431.
|
[14]
|
Kululanga, et al. (2011) Striving to promote male involvement in maternal health care in rural and urban settings in Malawi—A qualitative study. Reproductive Health, 8, 36. doi:10.1186/1742-4755-8-36
|
[15]
|
Ochako, et al. (2011) Utilization of maternal health services among young women in Kenya: Insights from the Kenya demographic and health survey, 2003. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 11, 1.
doi:10.1186/1471-2393-11-1
|
[16]
|
Nahar, S., Banu, M. and Nasreen, H.E. (2011) Women- focused development intervention reduces delays in accessing emergency obstetric care in urban slums in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 11, 11. doi:10.1186/1471-2393-11-11
|
[17]
|
Kawuwa, M.B., Mairiga, A.G. and Usman, H.A. (2007) Community perspective of maternal mortality: Experience from Konduga local government area, Borno State, Nigeria. Annals of African Medicine, 6, 109-114.
doi:10.4103/1596-3519.55724
|