Increasing the Use of Skilled Health Personnel Where Traditional Birth Attendants Were Providers of Childbirth Care: A Systematic Review

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Vieira, Claudia ^a,b   Portela, Anayda ^b   Miller, Tina ^c   Coast, Ernestina ^d   Leone, Tiziana ^d   Marston, Cicely ^e  

^a World Health Organization ^*

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; COMMUNITY CARE; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL EXPERT; MIDWIFE; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; PERU; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRADITIONAL HEALER;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDWIFERY; PREGNANCY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84868145828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047946     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. United Nations (2011) The Millennium Development Goals report 2011. New York: United Nations. 67 p.
2. WHO UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank (2012) Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2010. WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank estimates. Geneva: World Health Organization. 59 p.
3. World Health Organization (1992) Traditional birth attendants: a joint WHO/UNFPA/UNICEF statement. Geneva: World Health Organization. 18 p.
4. Sibley L, Sipe TA, Koblinsky M, (2004) Does traditional birth attendant training improve referral of women with obstetric complications: a review of the evidence. Soc Sci Med 59: 1757-1768.
5. Bergström S, Goodburn E (2001) The role of traditional birth attendants in the reduction of maternal mortality. In: De Brouwere V, Van Lerberghe W, editors. Safe Motherhood strategies: a review of the evidence. Antwerp: ITG Press. pp. 77-96.
6. Sibley LM, Sipe TA, Brown CM, Diallo MM, McNatt K, et al. (2009) Traditional birth attendant training for improving health behaviours and pregnancy outcomes. The Cochrane Library 3: 1-44.
7. Family Care International, Inter-Agency Group for Safe Motherhood (1997) The Safe Motherhood action agenda: priorities for the next decade. Report on the Safe Motherhood Technical Consultation, 18-23 October 1997, Colombo, Sri Lanka. New York. 95 p.
8. World Health Organization (2004) Making pregnancy safer: the critical role of the skilled attendant: a joint statement by WHO, ICM and FIGO. Geneva: World Health Organization. 18 p.
9. Crowe S, Utley N, Costello A, Pagel C, (2012) How many births in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia will not be attended by a skilled birth attendant between 2011 and 2015. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 12: 4.
10. Izugbara C, Ezeh A, Fotso J, (2009) The persistence and challenges of homebirths: perspectives of traditional birth attendants in urban Kenya. Health Policy Plan 24: 36-45.
11. Byrne A, Morgan A, (2011) How the integration of traditional birth attendants with formal health systems can increase skilled birth attendance. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 115: 127-134.
12. Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman D, (2009) PRISMA Group (2009) Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. PLoS Med 6: e1000097.
13. Law M, Stewart D, Letts L, Pollock N, Bosch J, et al. (1998) Critical review form, qualitative studies. McMaster University. Available: http://www.srs-mcmaster.ca/Portals/20/pdf/ebp/quanguidelines.pdf. Accessed 2012 Apr 30.
14. Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (2010) Critical appraisal skills programme. Available: http://www.casp-uk.net/. Accessed 2012 Apr 30.
15. von Elm E, Altman DG, Egger M, Pocock SJ, Gøtzsche PC, et al. (2007) The strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. PLoS Med 4: e296.
16. Des Jarlais DC, Lyles C, Crepaz N, (2004) TREND Group (2004) Improving the reporting quality of nonrandomized evaluations of behavioral and public health interventions: the TREND statement. Am J Public Health 94: 361-366.
17. Rychetnik L, Frommer M (2002) A schema for evaluating evidence on public health interventions; version 4. Melbourne: National Public Health Partnership. 51 p.
18. Shrestha R (2007) Family planning, community health interventions and the mortality risk of children in Indonesia: PhD thesis. The Ohio State University. 108 p. [unpublished work].
19. Frankenberg E, Buttenheim A, Sikoki B, Suriastini W, (2009) Do women increase their use of reproductive health care when it becomes more available? Evidence from Indonesia. Stud Fam Plann 40: 27-38.
20. Achadi E, Scott S, Pambudi ES, Makowiecka K, Marshall T, et al. (2007) Midwifery provision and uptake of maternity care in Indonesia. Trop Med Int Health 12: 1490-1497.
21. Fauveau V, Stewart K, Khan SA, Chakraborty J, (1991) Effect on mortality of community-based maternity-care programme in rural Bangladesh. Lancet 338: 1183-1186.
22. McQuestion MJ, Velasquez A, (2006) Evaluating program effects on institutional delivery in Peru. Health Policy 77: 221-232.
23. Hatt L, Nguyen H, Sloan N, Miner S, Magvanjav O, et al. (2010) Economic evaluation of demand-side financing (DSF) for maternal health in Bangladesh. Review, analysis and assessment of issues related to health care financing and health economics in Bangladesh. Bethesda: Abt Associates Inc. 152 p. [unpublished work].
24. Campbell M, Fitzpatrick R, Haines A, Kinmonth A, Sandercock P, et al. (2000) Framework for design and evaluation of complex interventions to improve health. BMJ 321: 694-696.
25. Petticrew M, (2003) Why certain systematic reviews reach uncertain conclusions. BMJ 326: 756-758.
26. Penfold S, Harrison E, Bell J, Fitzmaurice A, (2007) Evaluation of the delivery fee exemption policy in Ghana: population estimates of changes in delivery service utilization in two regions. Ghana Med J 41: 100-109.
27. Bhuiyan AB, Mukherjee S, Acharya S, Haider SJ, Begum F, (2005) Evaluation of a Skilled Birth Attendant pilot training program in Bangladesh. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 90: 56-60.
28. Ir P, Horemans D, Souk N, Van Damme W, (2010) Using targeted vouchers and health equity funds to improve access to skilled birth attendants for poor women: a case study in three rural health districts in Cambodia. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 10: 1.