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Title |
Improving Maternal Health in Pakistan: Toward a Deeper
Understanding of the Social Determinants of Poor
Women’s Access to Maternal Health Services |
Author(s) |
Zubia Mumtaz,Sarah Salway, Afshan Bhatti,et al - Personal Name
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Subject |
Maternal Health |
Publisher |
American Journal of Public Health |
Publishing Year |
2014 |
Specific Detail Info |
Evidence suggests national- and community-level interventions are not reaching
women living at the economic and social margins of society in Pakistan. We
conducted a 10-month qualitative study (May 2010–February 2011) in a village in
Punjab, Pakistan. Data were collected using 94 in-depth interviews, 11 focus
group discussions, 134 observational sessions, and 5 maternal death case
studies. Despite awareness of birth complications and treatment options,
poverty and dependence on richer, higher-caste people for cash transfers or
loans prevented women from accessing required care. There is a need to end the
invisibility of low-caste groups in Pakistani health care policy. Technical
improvements in maternal health care services should be supported to counter
social and economic marginalization so progress can be made toward Millennium
Development Goal 5 in Pakistan. |
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