Özge Tunçalp

Biographic Data

ID1731608
NAMEÖzge Tunçalp
GIVEN NAMESÖzge
FAMILY NAMETunçalp
SIGNATURETUNÇALP Ö
AFFILIATIONSWorld Health Organization
ORCID0000-0002-5370-682X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT64
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Assessing metrics for evaluating the maternal continuum of care in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAbdulaziz Mohammed Hussen, Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Despite Ethiopia’s remarkable progress in reducing maternal mortality between 2000 and 2023, more effort is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target. The government outlined a continuum of care framework for reproductive, maternal, and child healthcare service delivery to positively impact maternal health outcomes. Therefore, it is important to measure and monitor progress in improving women’s access to the continuum of car…

  • Development and validation of the person-centered postnatal care scale for low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessPatience A Afulani, Anthony Gerald Akanlu et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health2026

  • Well-being of health workers providing maternal and newborn care

    Open AccessAlya Hazfiarini, Martha Vazquez Corona et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Health workers providing maternal and newborn care can experience burnout and emotional distress, which harms their well-being and, consequently, their ability to deliver respectful care. The World Health Organization (WHO) Compendium on respectful maternal and newborn care identifies health workers’ well-being as a critical area for intervention, but no specific definition or domains of well-being exist for this group. We conducted a qualitative…

  • Satisfaction and experience of care among women with abortion-related complications from Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean

    Open AccessNelio Neves Veiga Junior, Hedieh Mehrtash et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Although abortion is a frequent event in women’s reproductive life and abortion-related complications have negative consequences for women’s health and wellbeing, little is known about the quality of abortion care. To improve the quality, women’s experience of care and satisfaction, need to be further standardized and studied. This study aims to assess experience and satisfaction with post-abortion care in Africa, and Latin America and the Caribb…

  • The association between female genital cutting and time-to-pregnancy among women of reproductive age – applying the current duration approach in demographic and health survey data from Nigeria

    Open AccessLaura Briggs Drew, Chelsea B Polis et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2026

    Female genital cutting (FGC) may lead to clinical infertility (failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months of regular unprotected sexual intercourse) through gynaecologic morbidity and reduced sexual frequency, but previous studies were inconclusive. Therefore, we examined if FGC and FGC severity were associated with longer time-to-pregnancy (TTP) in Nigeria. We restricted 2013 Nigeria Demographic Health Survey (NDHS) data to women at risk of …

  • Health workers’ perspectives on self-monitoring of blood pressure by pregnant women

    Open AccessTaddesse Tamrat, Yuni Dwi Setiyawati et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDPs) are a leading cause of maternal mortality and morbidity globally but could be mitigated through accurate and timely blood pressure (BP) monitoring. Self-monitoring of blood pressure (SMBP) in pregnancy is an emerging approach for the management of HDPs but mainly studied from the perspectives of pregnant women, in high-income contexts, or tertiary care. This qualitative study explored healt…

  • Perceptions and experiences of the prevention, testing, and treatment of anaemia in pregnant women

    Open AccessEbony Verbunt, Martha Vazquez Corona et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Anaemia during pregnancy is a serious public health problem, inequitably burdening women in low-and middle-income countries. Despite numerous strategies and programs, anaemia prevalence rates have stagnated. We aimed to explore women’s, health workers’, and other key stakeholders’ perceptions of anaemia in pregnant women, or their experiences with its prevention, testing, or treatment. We conducted a qualitative evidence synthesis. We searched ME…

  • Women's experiences of facility-based abortion care

    Open AccessBela Ganatra, Annik Mahalia Sorhaindo et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Cited by: 1References: 120

    The World Health Organization's Abortion Care Guideline requires abortion care to be not only safe but also effective, efficient, accessible, equitable, acceptable, and person centered. We synthesized qualitative evidence from 111 papers from 42 countries selected from a systematic search of literature published between January 1996 and September 2023. We developed a typology of experiences experienced by abortion seekers engaging with facility-b…

  • A global analysis of the determinants of maternal health and transitions in maternal mortality

    Open AccessJuliano P Souza, João Paulo Souza et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2024

    The reduction of maternal mortality and the promotion of maternal health and wellbeing are complex tasks. This Series paper analyses the distal and proximal determinants of maternal health, as well as the exposures, risk factors, and micro-correlates related to maternal mortality. This paper also examines the relationship between these determinants and the gradual shift over time from a pattern of high maternal mortality to a pattern of low mater…

  • Integrating international policy standards in the implementation of postnatal care

    Open AccessHelen Smith, Aleena M Wojcieszek et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: International legal and political documents can assist policy-makers and programme managers in countries to create an enabling environment to promote maternal and newborn health. This review aimed to map and summarise international legal and political documents relevant to the implementation of the WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience. METHODS: Rapid review of relevant international le…

  • Revisiting health systems to integrate perinatal mental health into maternal and child health services

    Open AccessAnteneh Asefa, C Hanlon et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    box There is a growing call for actionable recommendations to promote perinatal mental health and to prevent and treat perinatal mental health conditions, particularly in Africa

  • Use of multiple micronutrient supplementation integrated into routine antenatal care

    Open AccessTabassum Firoz, Jahnavi Daru et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Optimal maternal nutrition, including adequate intake and status of essential micronutrients, is important for the health of women and developing infants. Currently, the World Health Organization (WHO) Antenatal care recommendations for a positive pregnancy experience recommend daily iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation as the standard of care. The use of multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) is recommended in the context of rigorous rese…

  • Comparing observed occurrence of mistreatment during childbirth with women’s self-report

    Open AccessHedieh Mehrtash, Meghan A Bohren et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: There has been substantial progress in developing approaches to measure mistreatment of women during childbirth. However, less is known about the differences in measurement approaches. In this study, we compare measures of mistreatment obtained from the same women using labour observations and community-based surveys in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria. METHODS: Experiences of mistreatment during childbirth are person-centred quality measure…

  • What’s in a name? Unpacking ‘Community Blank ’ terminology in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health

    Open AccessSara Dada, Olive Cocoman et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Introduction Engaging the community as actors within reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) programmes (referred to as ‘community blank’ ) has seen increased implementation in recent years. While evidence suggests these approaches are effective, terminology (such as ‘community engagement,’ ‘community participation,’ ‘community mobilisation,’ and ‘ social accountability ’) is often used interchangeably across published literature…

  • Mistreatment of women during childbirth and postpartum depression

    Open AccessChris Guure, Philomina Akandity Aviisah et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a leading cause of disability globally with estimated prevalence of approximately 20% in low-income and middle-income countries. This study aims to determine the prevalence and factors associated with PPD following mistreatment during facility-based childbirth. METHOD: This secondary analysis used data from the community survey of postpartum women in Ghana, Guinea, Myanmar and Nigeria for the WHO study, …

  • Measuring experience of and satisfaction with newborn care

    Open AccessNicole Minckas, Rashmi Kharel et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: Standardised measures on experience of care are essential to understanding the care women and newborns receive and to designing appropriate interventions and responses. This review builds on ongoing work in the realm of maternity care and complements it by reviewing existing tools and measures to assess experience of and satisfaction with the care of the newborn. METHODS: We conducted a scoping review of published literature to identi…

  • Strengthening antenatal care services for all

    Open AccessLisa Noguchi, Maurice Bucagu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

  • A critical interpretive synthesis of power and mistreatment of women in maternity care

    Open AccessMarta Schaaf, Maayan Jaffe et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Labouring women may be subjected to physical and verbal abuse that reflects dynamics of power, described as Mistreatment of Women (MoW). This Critical Interpretive Synthesis on power and MoW consolidates current research and advances theory and practice through inter-disciplinary literature exploration. The review was undertaken in 3 phases. Phase 1 consisted of topic scoping; phase 2 entailed exploration of key power-related drivers emerging fro…

  • Feasibility and readiness to implement Robson classification to monitor caesarean sections in public hospitals in Myanmar

    Open AccessKyaw Lwin Show, Thae Maung Maung et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Recent years have demonstrated an increase in caesarean section (CS) in most countries worldwide with considerable concern for the potential consequences. In 2015, WHO proposed the use of Robson classification as a global standard for assessing, monitoring and comparing CS rates. Currently, there is no standardized method to assess CS in Myanmar. The aim of this study was to explore health provider’s perceptions about the feasibility, acceptabili…

  • Theories for interventions to reduce physical and verbal abuse

    Open AccessSoo Downe, Rebecca Nowland et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Despite global attention, physical and verbal abuse remains prevalent in maternity and newborn healthcare. We aimed to establish theoretical principles for interventions to reduce such abuse. We undertook a mixed methods systematic review of health and social care literature (MEDLINE, SocINDEX, Global Index Medicus, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Sept 29th 2020 and March 22 nd 2022: no date or language restrictions). Papers that included theory were a…

  • Women’s perceptions of telephone interviews about their experiences with childbirth care in Nigeria

    Open AccessNasir Umar, Zelee Hill et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Our objective is to investigate women’s perceptions of phone interviews about their experiences with facility childbirth care. The study was conducted between October 2020 and January 2021, in Gombe State, Nigeria. Participants were women aged 15–49 years, who delivered in ten study Primary Health Care centres, provided phone numbers, and consented to a follow-up telephone interview about their childbirth experience. The phone interviews took pla…

  • Strategies to improve interpersonal communication along the continuum of maternal and newborn care

    Open AccessKlaartje M Olde Loohuis, Bregje Christina De Kok et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Effective interpersonal communication is essential to provide respectful and quality maternal and newborn care (MNC). This scoping review mapped, categorized, and analysed strategies implemented to improve interpersonal communication within MNC up to 42 days after birth. Twelve bibliographic databases were searched for quantitative and qualitative studies that evaluated interventions to improve interpersonal communication between health workers a…

  • From global recommendations to (in)action

    Open AccessMeghan A Bohren, Alya Hazfiarini et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Women greatly value and benefit from the presence of someone they trust to support them throughout labour and childbirth (‘labour companion of choice’). Labour companionship improves maternal and perinatal outcomes, including enhancing physiological labour and birth experiences. Despite clear benefits, implementation is slow. We conducted a scoping review to assess coverage and models of labour companionship, including quantitative studies report…

  • Completion of the Continuum of Maternity Care in the Emerging Regions of Ethiopia

    Open AccessAbdulaziz Mohammed Hussen, Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Maternal mortality in Ethiopia was estimated to be 267 per 100,000 live births in 2020. A significant number of maternal deaths occur in the emerging regions of the country: Afar, Somali, Gambela, and Benishangul-Gumuz. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target requires a dramatic increase in maternal healthcare utilisation during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Yet, there is a paucity of evidence on the continuum …

  • Rethinking trust in the context of mistreatment of women during childbirth

    Open AccessVeloshnee Govender, Stephanie M Topp et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    [Extract] The mistreatment of women during childbirth is a global phenomenon.1 Mistreatment includes physical and verbal abuse, violations of privacy, stigma and discrimination, and neglect and abandonment. To date, much of the focus has been on measuring this phenomenon and the interpersonal relationships between women and health workers and the role of and abuse of power by these workers.2 However, more recently, there have been increasing call…