Quality of antenatal and delivery care and postnatal care use: A multi-country observational study of 400,000 births

Authors

• Jan E. Cooper, McGill University
• Hwa-Young Lee, The Catholic University of Korea
• Katherine Wright, Harvard University
• Prashant Jaryan, Centre for Chronic Disease Control
• Margaret E. Kruk, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Journal

PLoS Medicine

Publication Date

4-1-2026

Volume

23

Issue

4

First Page

e1005055

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.1005055

Rights and Permissions

Cooper JE, Lee HY, Wright K, Jaryan P, Kruk ME. Quality of antenatal and delivery care and postnatal care use: A multi-country observational study of 400,000 births. PLoS Med. 2026 Apr 21;23(4):e1005055. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1005055. © 2026 Cooper et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Recommended Citation

Cooper, Jan E.; Lee, Hwa-Young; Wright, Katherine; Jaryan, Prashant; and Kruk, Margaret E., "Quality of antenatal and delivery care and postnatal care use: A multi-country observational study of 400,000 births." PLoS Medicine. 23, 4. e1005055 (2026).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/7512

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