Figure 2From: Accounts of severe acute obstetric complications in Rural Bangladesh Pathway to receipt of emergency medical care during severe obstetric complications. This overall conceptual model depicts the common factors reported to contribute to delays in seeking certified care as well as facilitating factors that allowed women to eventually receive life-saving care. Barriers are organized into socioeconomic and demographic factors and sociocultural and structural factors. Advice from non-certified providers and enhanced coordination through use of mobile phones enabled women to receive emergency care from certified providers.Back to article page