Postnatal care could be the key to improving the continuum of care in maternal and child health in Ratanakiri, Cambodia

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 13; no. 6; p. e0198829
• Main Authors: Kikuchi, Kimiyo, Yasuoka, Junko, Nanishi, Keiko, Ahmed, Ashir, Nohara, Yasunobu, Nishikitani, Mariko, Yokota, Fumihiko, Mizutani, Tetsuya, Nakashima, Naoki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 11.06.2018; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis; Area Under Curve; Biology and Life Sciences; Birth; Births; Cambodia; Child Health; Child mortality; Childbirth & labor; Children; Children & youth; Childrens health; Complications; Confidence intervals; Continuity of Patient Care - statistics & numerical data; Continuum of care; Cross-Sectional Studies; Delivery services; Female; Health care; Health care facilities; Health services; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Infectious diseases; Information technology; Interviews as Topic; Low income groups; Malaria; Management; Maternal & child health; Maternal Health; Maternal mortality; Medicine and Health Sciences; Neonates; Newborn babies; People and Places; Postnatal care; Postnatal Care - statistics & numerical data; Postpartum period; Pregnancy; Pregnancy complications; Prenatal Care; ROC Curve; Rural areas; Social Class; Surveys and Questionnaires; Systematic review; Telemedicine; Womens health; Workers; Young Adult; Cambodia; Japan; Ghana

In South-East Asia, the maternal and child mortality rate has declined over the past decades; however, it varies among and within the countries in the region, including Cambodia. The continuum of care is an integrated series of care that women and children are required to avail continuously from pre...