Internal medicine

Fetus

Pediatrics

Biology

Meta-analysis

Political science

MEDLINE

Pregnancy

Perinatal mortality

Scopus

Confidence interval

Genetics

Medicine

BMC Research Notes

A proper uptake of maternity waiting homes (MWHs) is important to improve maternal and child health (MCH). The aim of this review is to generate the best existing evidences concerning the MWHs utilization and its impact on perinatal mortality (PNM) among pregnant mothers in Africa. Both relevant quantitative and qualitative studies, investigated and reported from databases were explored. Meta-analysis of the studies was displayed by tables and forest plots. The Stata version 14 was used with the fixed effect model and 95% confidence interval.

The significant association between maternity waiting homes utilization and perinatal mortality in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis