4.6 Article

Impact of beliefs on perception of newborn illness, caregiver behaviors, and care-seeking practices in Zambia's Southern province

Related references

Note: Only part of the references are listed.
Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Care-Seeking Behavior for Newborns in Rural Zambia

Lucy Thairu et al.

Summary: In resource-limited areas such as rural Lufwanyama District in Zambia, mothers face barriers in seeking healthcare for their ill newborns. This study found that mothers and grandmothers were able to identify danger signs in newborns and had a hierarchy of care-seeking based on the severity of the signs. However, factors such as transportation costs, inaccessible healthcare facilities, high medication costs, lack of respectful treatment, and fear of newborns dying in the hospital prevented timely care-seeking. Traditional birth attendants and community health workers had limited roles in newborn care, leading mothers to turn to traditional healers. The study suggests that training both traditional birth attendants and community health workers in providing community-based newborn care and appropriate referrals could improve care-seeking and prevent newborn mortality in rural Zambia.

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH JOURNAL (2022)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Traditions and trust: a qualitative study of barriers to facility-based obstetric and immediate neonatal care in Chiapas, Mexico

Emma Sacks et al.

Summary: Poor access and quality of intrapartum and postpartum health care are major barriers to maternal and neonatal care utilization in Chiapas, Mexico. Economic and geographic barriers, incompatible traditions, fear of mistreatment, perceived poor quality care, as well as language and political barriers were reported as common obstacles. Political conflict in the region also contributed to reduced trust in government facilities and physical roadblocks. Improving geographic and economic access, as well as addressing quality of care, can help improve service utilization.

WOMEN & HEALTH (2022)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Women's experiences of cultural and traditional health beliefs about pregnancy and childbirth in Zambia: An ethnographic study

Leena Honkavuo

Summary: Pregnancy and childbirth of Zambian women are closely linked to cultural and traditional practices, activities, and beliefs. Family, pregnancy, and childbirth play an important role in strengthening generational traditions and preserving culture, with family continuity related to the legacy of generations through the spirits of the ancestors.

HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL (2021)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Factors Motivating Traditional Healer versus Biomedical Facility Use for Treatment of Pediatric Febrile Illness: Results from a Qualitative Study in Southwestern Uganda

Anneka Hooft et al.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE (2020)

Article Health Care Sciences & Services

Men's perspectives on male participation in antenatal care with their pregnant wives: a case of a military hospital in Lusaka, Zambia

Hamalambo Muloongo et al.

BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH (2019)

Review Nursing

Culture and Birth Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Literature

Rachel Lang-Balde et al.

JOURNAL OF TRANSCULTURAL NURSING (2018)

Article Infectious Diseases

Fear and rumours regarding placental biopsies in a malaria-in-pregnancy trial in Benin

Adelaide Compaore et al.

MALARIA JOURNAL (2018)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

The impact of a multi-level maternal health programme on facility delivery and capacity for emergency obstetric care in Zambia

Elizabeth G. Henry et al.

GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH (2018)

Review Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

The influence of quality maternity waiting homes on utilization of facilities for delivery in rural Zambia

Elizabeth G. Henry et al.

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (2017)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

A Mobile-Based Community Health Management Information System for Community Health Workers and Their Supervisors in 2 Districts of Zambia

Godfrey Biemba et al.

GLOBAL HEALTH-SCIENCE AND PRACTICE (2017)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Postnatal Care Experiences and Barriers to Care Utilization for Home- and Facility-Delivered Newborns in Uganda and Zambia

Emma Sacks et al.

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH JOURNAL (2017)

Article Health Policy & Services

Postnatal care utilization and local understandings of contagion among HIV-infected and uninfected women in rural, southern Zambia

Emma Sacks et al.

AIDS CARE-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-MEDICAL ASPECTS OF AIDS/HIV (2016)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Roles and responsibilities in newborn care in four African sites

R. Iganus et al.

TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH (2015)

Article Obstetrics & Gynecology

Skin, thermal and umbilical cord care practices for neonates in southern, rural Zambia: a qualitative study

Emma Sacks et al.

BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH (2015)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Doctors and Vampires in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ethical Challenges in Clinical Trial Research

Koen Peeters Grietens et al.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE (2014)

Review Medicine, General & Internal

Care Seeking for Neonatal Illness in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

Hadley K. Herbert et al.

PLOS MEDICINE (2012)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Causes of stillbirth, neonatal death and early childhood death in rural Zambia by verbal autopsy assessments

Eleanor Turnbull et al.

TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH (2011)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Beyond symptom recognition: care-seeking for ill newborns in rural Ghana

Alessandra N. Bazzano et al.

TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH (2008)

Article Obstetrics & Gynecology

Acceptability of evidence-based neonatal care practices in rural Uganda – implications for programming

Peter Waiswa et al.

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2008)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Community response to intermittent preventive treatment delivered to infants (IPTi) through the EPI system in Manhica, Mozambique

Robert Pool et al.

TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH (2006)

Article Pediatrics

Neonatal morbidity and care-seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh

S Ahmed et al.

JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS (2001)