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When Women Deliver at Home Without a Skilled Birth Attendant: A Qualitative Study on the Role of Health Care Systems in the Increasing Home Births Among Rural Women in Southwestern Uganda

Esther C Atukunda1 Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, UgandaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Godfrey R Mugyenyi1 Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
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Celestino Obua1 Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, UgandaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6949-3059
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Angella Musiimenta2 Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
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Josephine N Najjuma1 Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
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Edgar Agaba1 Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
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Norma C Ware3 Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Lynn T Matthews4 Division of Infectious Diseases and Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA;5 Division of Infectious Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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Pages 423-434 | Published online: 27 May 2020

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Eric Ssegujja & Michelle Andipatin. (2023) National-level key stakeholders’ perspectives regarding intervention progression and emerging challenges within the national stillbirth reduction response in Uganda. PLOS ONE 18:4, pages e0285172.
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Esther C Atukunda, Mark J Siedner, Celestino Obua, Angella Musiimenta, Norma C Ware, Samuel Mugisha, Josephine N Najjuma, Godfrey R Mugyenyi & Lynn T Matthews. (2023) Evaluating the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of SupportMoms-Uganda, an mHealth-Based Patient-Centered Social Support Intervention to Improve the Use of Maternity Services Among Pregnant Women in Rural Southwestern Uganda: Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Formative Research 7, pages e36619.
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Yeshinat Lakew Ambaw, Birhanu Wubale Yirdaw, Mulunesh Abuhay Biwota, Abebayehu Melesew Mekuryaw & Birhan Tsegaw Taye. (2022) Antenatal care follow-up decreases the likelihood of cultural malpractice during childbirth and postpartum among women who gave birth in the last one-year in Gozamen district, Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study. Archives of Public Health 80:1.
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Birhan Tsegaw Taye, Azmeraw Ambachew Kebede & Kindu Yinges Wondie. (2022) Intention to use maternal health services and associated factors among women who gave birth at home in rural Sehala Seyemit district: a community-based cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 22:1.
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Adane Nigusie, Telake Azale, Mezgebu Yitayal & Lemma Derseh. (2022) The impact of perception on institutional delivery service utilization in Northwest Ethiopia: the health belief model. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 22:1.
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Azmeraw Ambachew Kebede, Birhan Tsegaw Taye & Kindu Yinges Wondie. (2022) Factors associated with comprehensive knowledge of antenatal care and attitude towards its uptake among women delivered at home in rural Sehala Seyemit district, northern Ethiopia: A community-based cross-sectional study. PLOS ONE 17:10, pages e0276125.
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Shefaly Shorey, Valerie Chan & Joan Gabrielle Lalor. (2021) Perceptions of women and partners on labor and birth positions: A meta‐synthesis. Birth 49:1, pages 19-29.
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Esther Cathyln Atukunda, Lynn T Matthews, Angella Musiimenta, Godfrey Rwambuka Mugyenyi, Samuel Mugisha, Norma C Ware, Celestino Obua & Mark J Siedner. (2021) mHealth-Based Health Promotion Intervention to Improve Use of Maternity Care Services Among Women in Rural Southwestern Uganda: Iterative Development Study. JMIR Formative Research 5:11, pages e29214.
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