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Reproductive Health

Issue 1/2009

Content (21 Articles)

Open Access Research

Water aerobics II: maternal body composition and perinatal outcomes after a program for low risk pregnant women

Sergio R Cavalcante, Jose G Cecatti, Rosa I Pereira, Erica P Baciuk, Ana L Bernardo, Carla Silveira

Open Access Study protocol

Active management of the third stage of labour without controlled cord traction: a randomized non-inferiority controlled trial

A Metin Gülmezoglu, Mariana Widmer, Mario Merialdi, Zahida Qureshi, Gilda Piaggio, Diana Elbourne, Hany Abdel-Aleem, Guillermo Carroli, G Justus Hofmeyr, Pisake Lumbiganon, Richard Derman, Pius Okong, Shivaprasad Goudar, Mario Festin, Fernando Althabe, Deborah Armbruster

Open Access Review

Limits to modern contraceptive use among young women in developing countries: a systematic review of qualitative research

Lisa M Williamson, Alison Parkes, Daniel Wight, Mark Petticrew, Graham J Hart

Open Access Research

Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women with known HIV status in northern Tanzania

Sia E Msuya, Jacqueline Uriyo, Akhtar Hussain, Elizabeth M Mbizvo, Stig Jeansson, Noel E Sam, Babill Stray-Pedersen

Open Access Research

Maternal mortality in the informal settlements of Nairobi city: what do we know?

Abdhalah Kasiira Ziraba, Nyovani Madise, Samuel Mills, Catherine Kyobutungi, Alex Ezeh

Open Access Research

Reproductive age mortality survey (RAMOS) in Accra, Ghana

Afisah Yakubu Zakariah, Sophie Alexander, Jos van Roosmalen, Pierre Buekens, Enyonam Yao Kwawukume, Patrick Frimpong

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National data system on near miss and maternal death: shifting from maternal risk to public health impact in Nigeria

Olufemi T Oladapo, Olalekan O Adetoro, Oluwarotimi Fakeye, Bissallah A Ekele, Adeniran O Fawole, Aniekan Abasiattai, Oluwafemi Kuti, Jamilu Tukur, Adedapo BA Ande, Olukayode A Dada

Open Access Research

Does hypoglycemia following a glucose challenge test identify a high risk pregnancy?

Suzanne K Pugh, Dorota A Doherty, Everett F Magann, Suneet P Chauhan, James B Hill, John C Morrison

Open Access Research

High rate of unintended pregnancy among pregnant women in a maternity hospital in Córdoba, Argentina: a pilot study

Celina Palena, M Valeria Bahamondes, Verónica Schenk, Luis Bahamondes, Julio Fernandez-Funes

Open Access Research

Design and validity of a questionnaire to assess sexuality in pregnant women

Cibele VC Rudge, Iracema MP Calderon, Adriano Dias, Gerson P Lopes, Angélica P Barbosa, Izildinha Maestá, Jon Øyvind Odland, Marilza VC Rudge

Open Access Research

Social differentiation and embodied dispositions: a qualitative study of maternal care-seeking behaviour for near-miss morbidity in Bolivia

Mattias Rööst, Cecilia Jonsson, Jerker Liljestrand, Birgitta Essén

Open Access Research

Religiosity and teen birth rate in the United States

Joseph M Strayhorn, Jillian C Strayhorn

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Brazilian network for the surveillance of maternal potentially life threatening morbidity and maternal near-miss and a multidimensional evaluation of their long term consequences

Jose G Cecatti, João P Souza, Mary A Parpinelli, Samira M Haddad, Rodrigo S Camargo, Rodolfo C Pacagnella, Carla Silveira, Dulce T Zanardi, Maria L Costa, João L Pinto e Silva, Renato Passini Jr, Fernanda G Surita, Maria H Sousa, Iracema MP Calderon, Lale Say, Robert C Pattinson

Open Access Research

Audit of short term outcomes of surgical and medical second trimester termination of pregnancy

Annamarie Mauelshagen, Lynn C Sadler, Helen Roberts, Mahesh Harilall, Cynthia M Farquhar

Open Access Review

Consanguinity and reproductive health among Arabs

Ghazi O Tadmouri, Pratibha Nair, Tasneem Obeid, Mahmoud T Al Ali, Najib Al Khaja, Hanan A Hamamy

Open Access Research

WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America: classifying caesarean sections

Ana P Betrán, A Metin Gulmezoglu, Michael Robson, Mario Merialdi, João P Souza, Daniel Wojdyla, Mariana Widmer, Guillermo Carroli, Maria R Torloni, Ana Langer, Alberto Narváez, Alejandro Velasco, Anibal Faúndes, Arnaldo Acosta, Eliette Valladares, Mariana Romero, Nelly Zavaleta, Sofia Reynoso, Vicente Bataglia

Open Access Research

Inconsistent fertility motivations and contraceptive use behaviors among women in Honduras

Ilene S Speizer, Laili Irani, Janine Barden-O'Fallon, Jessica Levy

Open Access Research

Pre-treatment preferences and characteristics among patients seeking in vitro fertilisation

Anthony PH Walsh, Gary S Collins, Monique Le Du, David J Walsh, Eric Scott Sills