Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
9-25-2020
Abstract
The Population Council developed High Impact Practice (HIP) briefs for three strategies that show promise for improving prevention, detection, and management of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy (HDPs). This brief focuses on one of those strategies: encouraging empowerment and self-care through participatory women’s groups and group antenatal care. Key points presented are: highly participatory, group-based interventions—such as community-based women’s groups and group antenatal and postnatal care (ANC/PNC)—provide opportunities for women to share their experiences and knowledge with others, discuss the local context for challenges and how to address them, and promote empowerment and agency; participation in these groups is associated with improved maternal health literacy, improved health behaviors, increased maternal health service uptake, and reduced maternal and neonatal mortality; women’s groups and group ANC are platforms for education and screening of pre-eclampsia. This brief highlights the role of women’s groups and group ANC in education about, and screening of, pre-eclampsia.
Recommended Citation
McClair, Tracy. 2020. "High Impact Practices—Encouraging empowerment and self-care through participatory women's groups and group antenatal care: Supporting women to be at the center of their own care as active participants," Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy brief. Washington, DC: Population Council.
DOI
10.31899/rh14.1035
Language
English
Project
Ending Eclampsia
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