Maternal and perinatal health in developing countries / edited by Julia Hussein, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, Affette McCaw-Binns, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica and Roger Webber, Argyll, Scotland, UK.
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TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, chartsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- Maternal health services -- Developing countries
- Mothers -- Mortality -- Developing countries
- Newborn infants -- Medical care -- Developing countries
- Perinatal death -- Developing countries
- Developing countries
- Health Economics, (New March 2000)
- Policy and Planning
- Health Services
- Human Reproduction and Development
- Human Sexual and Reproductive Health, (New March 2000)
- Access
- Epidemiology
- Health care
- Health policy
- Health programs
- Health services
- Human diseases
- Maternal mortality
- Maternity services
- Mothers
- Perinatal mortality
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy complications
- Prenatal care
- Reproductive health
- Women
- Developing Countries
- EE118
- EE120
- UU350
- VV060
- VV065
- 362.198/32060091724 23
- RG940 .M38 2012eb
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The promotion of maternal health and mortality reduction is of worldwide importance, and constitutes a vital part of the UN Millennium Development Goals. The highest maternal mortality rates are in developing countries, where global and regional initiatives are needed to improve the systems and practices involved in maternal care and medical access. Taking a practical policy approach, this book covers the background and concepts underlying efforts to improve maternal and perinatal mortality, the current global situation and problems that prevent progress. It includes case studies and examples of successful strategies, recommends good practices, and provides a critical analysis of knowledge gaps to inform areas for future research. This book will prove very useful to public health practitioners, policy makers, programme officers, and agencies working in developing countries.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An introduction to maternal and perinatal health / Julia Hussein, Ann K. Blanc, France Donnay and Affette McCaw-Binns -- The millennium development goals / Affette McCaw-Binns and Julia Hussein -- The politics of progress : the story of maternal mortality / Wendy J. Graham -- The epidemiology of maternal mortality / Cynthia Stanton and Affette McCaw-Binns -- The epidemiology of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths / Cynthia Stanton and Joy E. Lawn -- Health systems / Dileep V. Mavalankar and Parvathy Sankara Raman -- Financing maternity care / Sophie Witter and Tim Ensor -- Implementing clinical interventions within maternal health programmes / Ana Langer, Hannah Knight, Annabel Charnock, Mary Nell Wegner and José Villar -- Medical conditions in pregnancy : preventing and managing indirect obstetric morbidity / Roger Webber, Affette McCaw-Binns, and Julia Hussein -- Improving the availability of services / Ann Phoya, Dileep V. Mavalankar, Parvathy Sankara Raman and Julia Hussein -- Geographical access, transport, and referral systems / Stephen P. Munjanja, Tsitsi Magure, and Gwendoline Kandawasvika -- Demand for maternity care : beliefs, behaviour, and social access / Zubia Mumtaz and Adrienne Levay -- Empowering the community : BRAC's approach in Bangladesh / Kaosar Afsana -- Quality of care / Endang Achadi, Emma Pitchforth, and Julia Hussein -- Monitoring and evaluation / Sennen Hounton, David Newlands, Nicolas Meda and Julia Hussein -- Addressing maternal health in emergency settings / Linda Bartlett, Lain Aitken, Jeffrey Michael Smith, Lisa J. Thomas, Heather E. Rosen, Hannah Tappis and Gilbert Burnham.
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