scholarly journals Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services Among African Women Living in Beijing: Understanding the Challenges

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mavis Adu Asuamah ◽  
Raymond Agyenim-Boateng
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Services ◽  
African Women ◽  
Reproductive Healthcare

scholarly journals Perceptions of Decision-making in Accessing Reproductive Healthcare Services of Urban Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Md Mahbubur Rahman ◽  
Taniza Tabassum ◽  
Md Shafiqur Rahman ◽  
Abu Noman Mohammed Mosleh Uddin ◽  
Mushtaq Ahmad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Antenatal Care ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Urban Women ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
The Family ◽  
Reproductive Healthcare

Introduction:  Women’s healthcare during the reproductive period of life, especially decisions involving her own health is generally one of the least concerns to the common people. Women’s autonomy in decision-making within the family is fairly debatable and determines the health service seeking behaviour. Objective: To find out the perceptions about key persons involved in decision-making for accessing reproductive healthcare services as well as factors that influence those decisions among urban women of Bangladesh. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted by key informant interviewing (KII) of 72 respondents about their perceptions of decision-making in women’s reproductive health services in Dhaka South City Corporation during the period of January 2019 to April 2019. Health professionals of various levels, administrators, family heads were selected as key informants by purposive sampling method. An open-ended semi-structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Result: Among the key informants, more than half were doctors (58.3%). The majority of the respondents were female (72%) and having educational qualification up to graduate level (40.3%). Majority of the informants (73.9%) mentioned ‘both parents’ as key persons in under 18 marriage of their daughters; 57.1% of respondents opined that ‘Factors like social environment, social status, uncertainty to find better groom, dowry etc.’ influences in decision-making. All of the respondents felt antenatal care ‘essential’ and about half of them (50.0%) mentioned the importance of complication detection and treatment during pregnancy. According to the respondents, ‘mother-in-law’ is the key person in women’s decision-making regarding antenatal care (65.3%) and ‘husband’ is the key person regarding selection of the place of delivery and postnatal care (79.2%, 72.2%) respectively. Half of the respondents (50%) expressed the family size determination in an urban area is done mutually by ‘both partners’ while the role of the ‘husband’ is still perceived important (41.7%). Majority expressed that economic condition of the family (63.9%) have an influence in determining family size by the respondents. According to more than half of the respondents (52.8%), both partners take part in decision-making regarding family planning. Conclusion: Although the educated employed women enjoy some degree of autonomy in urban areas of Bangladesh, the decision-making in accessing woman’s reproductive healthcare services is directed by the husband. Involvement of both partners in decision-making is essential for better utilization of reproductive health services. Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.14(1) 2018: 15-20

Nurses' Use of Global Information Systems for Provision of Outreach Reproductive Health Services to Internally Displaced Persons

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (S1) ◽  
pp. s35-s38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masood A. Shaikh
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Global Information Systems ◽  
Reproductive Healthcare

AbstractIntroduction:A long and protracted civil war compounded by the occurrence of nature-related disasters have forced thousands of Somalis to take refuge in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) to escape violence and seek shelter. Dwellers of these camps have limited accessibility to and affordability of the fractured healthcare facilities located in nearby towns. A free, outreach, mobile, reproductive healthcare delivery system staffed with nurses and using an ambulance guided by a global information systems (GIS) map was established to address the accessibility and affordability issues hindering provision of quality reproductive healthcare to the women in the IDP camps and in the outskirts of Baidoa City, Somalia.Methods:All 14 IDP camps in Baidoa City were visited to determine the number of families/huts, and to acquire their global positioning system (GPS) central point locations. Global information systems (GIS) shape files containing major roads, river, and dwellings, and straight-line distances from the base clinic to each IDP camp were computed. The objective of creating and using this specially designed map was to help nurses in determining which camps realistically could be visited on a given day, and how best to access them considering the security situation and the condition of rain-affected areas in the city.Results:Use of the GIS map was instrumental in facilitating the delivery of healthcare services to IDPs and ensuring that resources were adequately utilized. Free healthcare services were provided each work day for the month long duration of the project; 3,095 consultations were provided, inclusive of 948 consultations for children under the age of 16 years, and delivery of three babies.Conclusions:Creation and use of a simple, need-specific GIS map in this pilot project effectively aided the logistical planning and delivery of mobile, outreach reproductive health services by directing the ambulance and nurses safely to accessible IDP camps in an area marred with long and protracted disasters from both natural and human causes.

scholarly journals Being Single as a Social Barrier to Access Reproductive Healthcare Services by Iranian Girls

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
Shahnaz Kohan ◽  
Fatemeh Mohammadi ◽  
Firoozeh Mostafavi ◽  
Ali Gholami
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Reproductive Healthcare

scholarly journals ‘The world is not only for hearing people – It’s for all people’: The experiences of women who are deaf or hard of hearing in accessing healthcare services in Johannesburg, South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khetsiwe P. Masuku ◽  
Nomfundo Moroe ◽  
Danielle Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Communication Barriers ◽  
African Women ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Background: Despite legal and adopted frameworks purporting access to healthcare and rehabilitation services, which are both a human right and key to developmental issues, women who are deaf and/or hard of hearing (HoH) are still excluded and experience barriers when accessing healthcare services. Largely, this is attributed to communication barriers between healthcare professionals and women who are deaf and/or HoH. There have been limited research studies carried out on women with invisible disabilities, such as deafness, especially amongst African women.Objectives: This study sought to gain insights into the communication experiences of women who are deaf or HoH when accessing public healthcare services in hospitals in Johannesburg.Methods: A qualitative research study employing semi-structured interviews with 10 African women who are deaf and/or HoH residing in Johannesburg, South Africa and attending government healthcare facilities was conducted. Participants were purposively selected. Data were analysed using thematic analysis.Results: Data revealed the following themes: communication barriers resulting in compromised quality of care and infringement on participants’ right to confidentiality; accommodation that is not accommodative and negative attitudes of healthcare professionals.Conclusion: The findings of this study confirm the alienating, exclusion, marginalisation, discrimination, invisibility, lack of independence and autonomy of women who are deaf and/or HoH when accessing healthcare services. Therefore, this study argues for a need for the conscientisation of healthcare professionals on communication needs of persons who are deaf and/or HoH. This has implications for the implementation of training programmes that will address communication, reasonable accommodation and attitudes of healthcare professionals.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on women reproductive health and family planning services

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1757
Author(s):  
Manish Taywade ◽  
Rudra Prasad Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Reproductive Healthcare ◽  
Reproductive Age Group

Globally, women and adolescents health in the reproductive age group are heavily affected during the ongoing coronavirus disease - 2010 (COVID-19) pandemic. Contraception shortage across the world. Sustainable development goal, target 3.7 is “to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including for family planning, information and education and integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes.” The demand of health workers and supply chain are affected and impacted the availability and accessibility to the sexual and reproductive health

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