2023
Out-of-Pocket Expenditure for Antenatal Care Amid Free Health Care Provision: Evidence From a Large Pregnancy Cohort in Rural Sri Lanka
Gunarathna S, Wickramasinghe N, Agampodi T, Prasanna I, Agampodi S. Out-of-Pocket Expenditure for Antenatal Care Amid Free Health Care Provision: Evidence From a Large Pregnancy Cohort in Rural Sri Lanka. Global Health Science And Practice 2023, 11: e2200410. PMID: 37903576, PMCID: PMC10615247, DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-22-00410.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMean OOP expenditureAntenatal careLarge pregnancy cohortPrivate health facilitiesPregnant womenHealth facilitiesOOP expenditureMaternal morbidityIndependent predictorsPrevious pregnancyPregnancy cohortHealth service utilizationInterviewer-administered questionnaireSignificant independent predictorsGovernment health facilitiesGovernment health servicesCare modeLaboratory investigationsHealth care usersSelf-administered questionnaireSri Lankan settingMonthly household incomeHealth care provisionANC visitsThird trimester
2015
A global reference for caesarean section rates (C‐Model): a multicountry cross‐sectional study
Souza J, Betran A, Dumont A, de Mucio B, Pickens C, Deneux‐Tharaux C, Ortiz‐Panozo E, Sullivan E, Ota E, Togoobaatar G, Carroli G, Knight H, Zhang J, Cecatti J, Vogel J, Jayaratne K, Leal M, Gissler M, Morisaki N, Lack N, Oladapo O, Tunçalp Ö, Lumbiganon P, Mori R, Quintana S, Passos A, Marcolin A, Zongo A, Blondel B, Hernández B, Hogue C, Prunet C, Landman C, Ochir C, Cuesta C, Pileggi‐Castro C, Walker D, Alves D, Abalos E, Moises E, Vieira E, Duarte G, Perdona G, Gurol‐Urganci I, Takahiko K, Moscovici L, Campodonico L, Oliveira‐Ciabati L, Laopaiboon M, Danansuriya M, Nakamura‐Pereira M, Costa M, Torloni, Kramer, Borges P, Olkhanud P, Pérez‐Cuevas R, Agampodi S, Mittal S, Serruya S, Bataglia V, Li Z, Temmerman M, Gülmezoglu A. A global reference for caesarean section rates (C‐Model): a multicountry cross‐sectional study. BJOG An International Journal Of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 2015, 123: 427-436. PMID: 26259689, PMCID: PMC4873961, DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.13509.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCaesarean section rateCS rateCross-sectional studyHealth facilitiesSection rateMulticountry cross-sectional studyROC curveGood discriminatory capacityProbability of CSHealth system managersObstetric populationDiagnostic odds ratioMaternal characteristicsHealth insurance companiesObstetric teamOdds ratioSummary estimatesDiscriminatory capacityReference populationUse of CSWomenBirth