Urogenital fistula reviewed: a marker of severe maternal morbidity and an indicator of the quality of maternal healthcare delivery

BACKGROUND: While obstetric fistula has been recognized as a major maternal morbidity since the 1980s, it has become an indicator of access to and quality of women’ s health care. FINDINGS: Obstetric fistula still exists in low-income countries (LIC) because health care systems fail to provide adequ...

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Autores principales: Harrison, Margo S., Mabeya, Hillary, Goldenberg, Robert L., McClure, Elizabeth M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4823691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27057337
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-015-0020-7
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author Harrison, Margo S.
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description BACKGROUND: While obstetric fistula has been recognized as a major maternal morbidity since the 1980s, it has become an indicator of access to and quality of women’ s health care. FINDINGS: Obstetric fistula still exists in low-income countries (LIC) because health care systems fail to provide adequate family planning, skilled birth attendance, basic and emergency obstetric care, and affordable treatment of fistula, while concurrently lacking social networks to serve as safety nets for affected girls and women [WHO, 2007]. CONCLUSION: This review explores the most recent published experience with respect to the definition of fistula, its diagnosis, treatment, and management, and further steps for prevention of fistula on a global scale.
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spelling pubmed-48236912016-04-07 Urogenital fistula reviewed: a marker of severe maternal morbidity and an indicator of the quality of maternal healthcare delivery Harrison, Margo S. Mabeya, Hillary Goldenberg, Robert L. McClure, Elizabeth M. Matern Health Neonatol Perinatol Review BACKGROUND: While obstetric fistula has been recognized as a major maternal morbidity since the 1980s, it has become an indicator of access to and quality of women’ s health care. FINDINGS: Obstetric fistula still exists in low-income countries (LIC) because health care systems fail to provide adequate family planning, skilled birth attendance, basic and emergency obstetric care, and affordable treatment of fistula, while concurrently lacking social networks to serve as safety nets for affected girls and women [WHO, 2007]. CONCLUSION: This review explores the most recent published experience with respect to the definition of fistula, its diagnosis, treatment, and management, and further steps for prevention of fistula on a global scale. BioMed Central 2015-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4823691/ /pubmed/27057337 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-015-0020-7 Text en © Harrison et al. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Mabeya, Hillary
Goldenberg, Robert L.
McClure, Elizabeth M.
Urogenital fistula reviewed: a marker of severe maternal morbidity and an indicator of the quality of maternal healthcare delivery
title Urogenital fistula reviewed: a marker of severe maternal morbidity and an indicator of the quality of maternal healthcare delivery
title_full Urogenital fistula reviewed: a marker of severe maternal morbidity and an indicator of the quality of maternal healthcare delivery
title_fullStr Urogenital fistula reviewed: a marker of severe maternal morbidity and an indicator of the quality of maternal healthcare delivery
title_full_unstemmed Urogenital fistula reviewed: a marker of severe maternal morbidity and an indicator of the quality of maternal healthcare delivery
title_short Urogenital fistula reviewed: a marker of severe maternal morbidity and an indicator of the quality of maternal healthcare delivery
title_sort urogenital fistula reviewed: a marker of severe maternal morbidity and an indicator of the quality of maternal healthcare delivery
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4823691/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-015-0020-7
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