Exploring the Journey to Maternal Death: Gender and Human Rights perspectives on the major causes of maternal mortality in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

dc.contributor.advisorJackson, D.
dc.contributor.authorMbombo, Nomafrench
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-11T09:58:04Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-02T07:49:50Z
dc.date.available2021-11-11T09:58:04Z
dc.date.available2024-04-02T07:49:50Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.descriptionPhilosophiae Doctor - PhDen_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I use gender and human rights approaches to examine and analyse the major causes of maternal mortality, which result from delay in seeking maternity care and failure to attend maternity care during pregnancy. A gender approach was used to identify and analyse inequalities that arise from belonging to one sex or from unequal power relations between sexes and how these impact on women accessing maternity care. The Human Rights approach was used to identify and analyse health system related factors that led women to delay seeking care and also failing to attend maternity care. A qualitative multiple case study methodology was followed with data analysed thematically. Findings were interpreted in the context of the International Bill of Rights, the South African Bill of Rights and International Human Rights treatises. Maternity women are unable to access maternity care because of their unmet gender equity needs, and because of maternity services that are not respecting, protecting and fulfilling their human right to access health care. A Gender-Human rights model of accessibility to quality maternity care is developed to assist health care providers in promoting availability of maternity services to health consumers. The model propositions are based on the major concepts which are: Gender equity, Women empowerment, Human rights to quality health care, Evidence Based Health Care, and Support during labour.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/10220
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectMaternal deathsen_US
dc.subjectSafe motherhooden_US
dc.subjectGender Human rightsen_US
dc.subjectAccessibilityen_US
dc.subjectHealth Careen_US
dc.subjectModel Case studiesen_US
dc.subjectMidwifeen_US
dc.subjectObstetric Unitsen_US
dc.subjectThematic analysisen_US
dc.titleExploring the Journey to Maternal Death: Gender and Human Rights perspectives on the major causes of maternal mortality in the Western Cape Province, South Africaen_US

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