Abstract

Decreasing newborn morbidity and mortality remains a serious global health challenge. For this reason, interventions like maternity waiting homes (MWHs) and the Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) initiative may improve maternal-newborn newborn health and delivery outcomes. The overarching goal of this dissertation was to explore and describe the cultural practices, knowledge, and beliefs of essential newborn care and health-seeking in the context of MWHs and the SMGL initiative in rural Zambia. Guided by the Ecological Systems Theory, this goal was met through three studies with the following aims: (1) Describe knowledge and beliefs of newborn care and illness from the perspective of rural Zambian women, community members, and health workers, (2) Examine similarities and differences in knowledge and beliefs of newborn care and illness among rural Zambian women, community members, and health workers, (3) Explore the social and cultural factors that are associated with the ways women seek newborn care to identify traditional and professional newborn care practices in rural Zambia, (4) Compare maternal knowledge of newborn care in two groups of women in rural Zambia, and (5) Advance an understanding of maternal-newborn delivery outcomes for women referred from health facilities with and without MWHs to the district referral hospital.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 27614536; ProQuest document ID: 2355997871. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Julie M. Buser, PhD, CPNP-PC, RN

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Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Quasi-Experimental Study, Other

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Maternal and Child Health, Cultural Practices, Maternity Waiting Homes, Maternal Mortality, Newborn Mortality, Developing Countries

Advisor

Jody Lori

Second Advisor

Cheryl Moyer

Third Advisor

Carol Boyd

Fourth Advisor

Andrew Jones

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Michigan

Degree Year

2019

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None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2021-08-13

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