{"id":200912,"date":"2026-03-31T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/4-steps-to-better-care\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:45:15","slug":"4-steps-to-better-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/4-steps-to-better-care\/","title":{"rendered":"4 steps to better care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/maternity-health-services-in-nigeria-are-failing-women-4-steps-to-better-care-277647\">4 steps to better care<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/maternity-health-services-in-nigeria-are-failing-women-4-steps-to-better-care-277647\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/maternity-health-services-in-nigeria-are-failing-women-4-steps-to-better-care-277647<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-31 10:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality rates globally, much above the African regional average, indicating numerous women do not receive maternal healthcare.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Key reasons for this include disparities in geographic access to healthcare, socio-demographic factors like education and poverty, religious impacts on health-seeking behavior, lack of health information, and the absence of health insurance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Several maternal health programs, including the National Integrated Maternal, Newborn and Child Strategy, have been implemented over the past two decades to improve access and reduce financial barriers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Despite these efforts, progress in reducing maternal deaths has been uneven. Northern regions like the north-east and north-west have much higher mortality rates than the southern parts of the country.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>To improve maternity services, four practical shifts are suggested: different region-specific interventions, bringing services closer to women, removing financial barriers, and leveraging digital health tools to widen access.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Region-specific interventions require addressing different cultural, religious, and geographic barriers, improving transport and health access, and strengthening culturally appropriate health education.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Services need to be brought closer to women, especially in rural areas, perhaps through more mobile health clinics and dedicated outreach teams providing health education and on-the-spot referrals.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Financial barriers must be tackled through expanding health insurance, enforcing policies against informal charges, and introducing financial incentives for poor women.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Digital health can play a critical role; with high internet and mobile phone penetration, digital platforms can provide reminders, education, support teleconsultations, and enhance risk screening using AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The next step is the targeted implementation of policies, aligning federal and state efforts, prioritizing funding, improving monitoring systems, and involving women in policy design.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 steps to better care https:\/\/theconversation.com\/maternity-health-services-in-nigeria-are-failing-women-4-steps-to-better-care-277647 Publish Date: 2026-03-31 10:07:00 Source Domain: theconversation.com Nigeria has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/726668\/original\/file-20260327-57-14hgpv.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C172%2C1024%2C512&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200914,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200912\/revisions\/200914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}