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Table 2 Themes, categories and sub-categories

From: Maternal health care professionals' perspectives on the provision and use of antenatal and delivery care: a qualitative descriptive study in rural Vietnam

Theme

Category

Subcategory

Contextual conditions for maternal health care

Facilitators and barriers to access of maternal health care

Pregnant women's reasons for attending ANC

  

Changing society

  

Son preference

 

Organisation of maternal health care

Routine care at ANC and at delivery

  

Management of CHS and prerequisite for employment

  

Suggested improvements

Balancing between possibilities and constraints

Interpersonal interactions

Midwife-pregnant woman interaction

  

Husbands role during pregnancy and childbirth

  

Midwife-family interaction

  

Pregnant women's desire to deliver at the CHS

 

Health care professionals' working conditions

Physical work environment

  

HIV

  

Mental work environment