The unavailability of money, distance to health facility or lack of transport, and the presence of TBAs were all identified barriers that prevented women from seeking adequate birth care, in spite the women's intent to give birth in a health facility.
When asked to identify specific difficulties and delays in the course of events, the family referred to the following: delays in Ibu Rahmi's husband's decision to seek care; the village midwife's unavailability; the cost and unavailability of transport; the distance to hospitals; that they did not know where to go; and that there was no health worker in the ambulance during the final journey.
Studies have, similarly to ours, found that long distance, unavailability of vehicles and poor states of roads are barriers to women reaching a facility which offers comprehensive obstetric care (17, 39) (40).
Biomass transport distances and the unavailability of suitable, low-ash CB may require future research to concentrate on smaller capacity coal-fired units between 50 and 300 MWe.
Our results determined that major barriers to skilled birth care include inadequate knowledge of the importance of services offered by skilled birth attendants (SBAs), distance to health facilities, unavailability of transport services, and poor availability of SBAs.
The increasing cost and frequent unavailability within economic distance of suitable natural rock has provoked considerable thought to the design of concrete armour units that can, by reason of their shape, overcome the disadvantages of the simple cubic, or rectangular, block.
Long distances to the health facilities, unavailability of public transport, and failure to meet transportation costs caused the labouring women to spend a long time on the road.
A mixed methods study found that barriers to contraceptive use were high cost, transport distance, inadequate number of contraceptives, and unavailability of preferred type of contraceptive [ 40].
