Supportive Care-A Missing Piece in the Current Global Efforts of Promoting Respectful Maternity Care

Waqas Hameed; Bushra Khan; Bilal Iqbal Avan

doi:10.3389/phrs.2024.1605597

Supportive Care-A Missing Piece in the Current Global Efforts of Promoting Respectful Maternity Care

Public Health Rev. 2024 Apr 29:45:1605597. doi: 10.3389/phrs.2024.1605597. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Waqas Hameed¹, Bushra Khan², Bilal Iqbal Avan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
² Department of Psychology, University of Karachi, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
³ Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: continuous support; disrespect and abuse; health system bottlenecks; human rights; mistreatment; psychosocial support; respectful maternity care; supportive care.

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare(s) that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was funded by the Medical Research Council (Project Reference: MR/T003375/1). The funder had no role, and will not have any role, in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.