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creators_name: Hoekstra, D.
title: We need Uchembere Wabwino Wabambo (Safe Motherhood for Men)”:  A Qualitative Study about the Perceptions of Men in Rural Malawi about Maternal Health and Male Involvement in Maternal Health
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abstract: Many insights obtained from research on reproductive health is derived from studies focused on women. Such data is important, but also helps to reinforce misconception at community level which labels family planning and fertilty as a ‘female’s affair’. 
This qualitative research fills this gap by focusing on the perception of men from rural Malawi, about maternal health and male involvement in maternal health. 
The participants were very aware of the maternal death risk. Men are on the one hand supposed to take certain responsibilities in order to safeguard the lives of their wives. On the other hand they are hindered by community factors which creates a feeling of being excluded, an image that pregnant women are dangerous to men, that men lack knowledge regarding safe motherhood, and that some men are negligent towards supporting their wives. 
The participants mentioned male clubs as a promising intervention to increase male involvement.
date: 2011
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: RS
tutors_name: Hutter, Prof. Dr. I.
tutors_name: Bailey, Dr. A.
keywords_local: Safe Motherhood
keywords_local: Sub-Saharan Africa
keywords_local: Rural Communities
keywords_local: Malawi
keywords_local: Community Based Research
keywords_local: Male Involvement
keywords_local: Maternal Health
keywords_local: Qualitative Research
language_iso: en
titleorder: We need Uchembere Wabwino Wabambo (Safe Motherhood for Men)”:  A Qualitative Study about the Perceptions of Men in Rural Malawi about Maternal Health and Male Involvement in Maternal Health
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date_issued: 2011-01-01
citation:   Hoekstra, D.  (2011) We need Uchembere Wabwino Wabambo (Safe Motherhood for Men)”: A Qualitative Study about the Perceptions of Men in Rural Malawi about Maternal Health and Male Involvement in Maternal Health.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/180/1/Annex_1b_and_1d_-_Guides_-_Eng_2.pdf
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/180/2/Annex_2b_2d_3b_3d_-_guides_-_C_3.pdf
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/180/3/Master_Thesis_Dyon.pdf