Patient-centred care in Maternity Services : a critical appraisal and synthesis of the literature

CDL thanks the School of Health Sciences (HESAV) at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland for their support.

The effect of user fee exemption on the utilization of maternal health care at mission health facilities in Malawi

Acknowledgements This article was based on the first author’s PhD which was financed by the Malawi Health Research Capacity Strengthening Initiative. We thank Mr Patrick Naphini formerly of the Ministry of Health and Mrs Mafase Sesani at CHAM Secretariat for helping with the data. We also thank Mr Jacob Mazalale for useful comments on the article.