Use of Health Professionals for Obstetric Care in Northern Ghana  

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Mills, Samuel ; Bertrand, Jane T.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Studies in Family Planning vol. 36 no. 01 (Mar. 2005), page 45-56.
Topik: Health Professionals; Obstetric Care
Fulltext: s26 v36 n1 p45 2005 win.pdf (2.53MB)

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This study explores the role of access versus traditional beliefs in the decision to seek obstetric care from health professionals. Eighteen purposively sampled homogenous groups in Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana participated in focus-group discussions about traditional beliefs, barriers to the use of healthp rofessionalsa, nd ways to improveo bstetricc are.A ll theg roups werek nowledgeable about the life-threatening signs and symptoms of complications of pregnancy and labor. Decisions aboutp laceo f deliveryg enerallyw ere madea ftert he onset of labor.A ccessibilityf actors (cost, distance, transporta, vailabilityo f healthf acilities,a nd nurses'a ttitudes)w erem ajorb arriersw, hereast raditional beliefs were reported as less significant. Informants made pertinent recommendations on how to improve obstetric services in the district. These findings demonstrate that even in this district, where African traditional religion is practiced by a third of the population, compared with a national average of 4 percent, lack of access was perceived as the main barrier to seeking professional obstetric care.

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