Integrating culture into maternity care programmes: a systematic mapping of interventions

This synopsis is from an article featured in our recent update of the MHTF-PLoS Collection, Integrating Health Care to Meet the Needs of the Mother-Infant Pair. Our recent systematic mapping indicates a growing global awareness of the need to design culturally-appropriate maternity care services in order to improve service utilization and thus maternal and newborn health outcomes, which is core to the World Health Organization’s mandate on ‘health for all.’