Advanced search
Publication Cover
Global Health Action Volume 8, 2015 - Issue 1
Submit an article Journal homepage
3,475
Views
47
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Special Issue: Newborn Health in Uganda

Weeping in silence: community experiences of stillbirths in rural eastern Uganda

Juliet KiguliDepartment of Health PolicyPlanning and Management, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, UgandaCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Sarah NamusokoDepartment of Health PolicyPlanning and Management, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
,
Kate KerberSaving Newborn Lives programSave the Children, Cape Town, South Africa
,
Stefan PetersonDepartment of Health PolicyPlanning and Management, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;Global HealthDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;International Maternal and Child Health UnitDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
&
Peter WaiswaDepartment of Health PolicyPlanning and Management, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;Global HealthDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Article: 24011 | Received 06 Feb 2014, Accepted 12 Nov 2014, Published online: 31 Mar 2015

References

  • Lawn JE, Lee AC, Kinney M, Sibley L, Carlo WA, Paul VK, etal. Two million intrapartum-related stillbirths and neonatal deaths: where, why, and what can be done?. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2009; 107 S5–18, S19.
  • UNICEF. UNICEF, state of the world's children 2008. 2008; UNICEF.
  • Lawn JE, Blencowe H, Oza S, You D, Lee AC, Waiswa P, etal. Every newborn: progress, priorities, and potential beyond survival. Lancet. 2014; 384: 189–205.
  • UNICEF, WHO, The World Bank, United Nations. Levels and trends in child mortality: report 2013. 2013; New York: UNICEF.
  • WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, The World Bank, United Nations Population Division. Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2013. 2014; Geneva: WHO.
  • Lawn JE, Blencowe H, Pattinson R, Cousens S, Kumar R, Ibiebele I, etal. Stillbirths: where? when? why? how to make the data count?. Lancet. 2011; 377: 1448–63.
  • Froen JF, Cacciatore J, McClure EM, Kuti O, Jokhio AH, Islam M, etal. Stillbirths: why they matter. Lancet. 2011; 377: 1353–66.
  • Waiswa P, Namazzi G, Kerber K, Peterson S. Designing for action: adapting and implementing a community-based newborn care package to affect national change in Uganda. Glob Health Action. 2014; 7 24250, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.24250 .
  • Waiswa P, Pariyo G, Kallander K, Akuze J, Namazzi G, Ekirapa-Kiracho E, etal. Effect of the Uganda Newborn Study on care-seeking and care practices: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Glob Health Action. 2014; 7 24584, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.24584 .
  • Waiswa P, Peterson SS, Namazzi G, Ekirapa EK, Naikoba S, Byaruhanga R, etal. The Uganda Newborn Study (UNEST): an effectiveness study on improving newborn health and survival in rural Uganda through a community-based intervention linked to health facilities – study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2012; 13: 213.
  • Pope C, Mays N. Reaching the parts other methods cannot reach: an introduction to qualitative methods in health and health services research. BMJ. 1995; 311: 42–5.
  • Graneheim UH, Lundman B. Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness. Nurse Educ Today. 2004; 24: 105–12.
  • Haws RA, Mashasi I, Mrisho M, Schellenberg JA, Darmstadt GL, Winch PJ. These are not good things for other people to know’: how rural Tanzanian women's experiences of pregnancy loss and early neonatal death may impact survey data quality. Soc Sci Med. 2010; 71: 1764–72.
  • Koenig MA, Lutalo T, Zhao F, Nalugoda F, Wabwire-Mangen F, Kiwanuka N, etal. Domestic violence in rural Uganda: evidence from a community-based study. Bull World Health Organ. 2003; 81: 53–60.
  • Thaddeus S, Maine D. Too far to walk: maternal mortality in context. Soc Sci Med. 1994; 38: 1091–110.
  • Waiswa P, Kallander K, Peterson S, Tomson G, Pariyo GW. Using the three delays model to understand why newborn babies die in eastern Uganda. Trop Med Int Health. 2010; 15: 964–72.
  • Cecil R. The anthropology of pregnancy loss: comparative studies in miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death (cross-cultural perspectives on women). 1996; Oxford, UK: Berg.
  • Conde-Agudelo A, Rosas-Bermudez A, Kafury-Goeta AC. Birth spacing and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes: a meta-analysis. JAMA. 2006; 295: 1809–23.
  • Christiansen D, Elklit A, Olff M. Parents bereaved by infant death: PTSD symptoms up to 18 years after the loss. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2013; 35: 605–11.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.