Maternal Health – Lessons Learned

Counselling for maternal and newborn health care : a handbook for building skills

Coombes, Yolande | cop. 2009
  • Author(s): Coombes, Yolande
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO). Department of making pregnancy safer
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal and child health, maternal health services, health education
This Handbook focuses on counselling and communicating with women, their families and communities to promote the health of mothers and newborns.

The human resources collaborative : improving maternal and child care in Niger : final report

Crigler, Lauren | 2012
  • Author(s): Crigler, Lauren
  • Publisher: United States agency for international development (USAID). Health care improvement (HCI) project [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal health services, health personnel, training programmes, niger
This report details the results and impact of a human resources for health quality improvement intervention in Niger. The approach focused on teaching evidence-based human resources interventions that will improve health outcomes.

Aligning and clarifying health worker tasks to improve maternal care in Niger : the Tahoua region human resources quality improvement collaborative

Crigler, Lauren | 2011
  • Author(s): Crigler, Lauren
  • Publisher: U.S. Agency for international development (USAID). Health care improvement (HCI) project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health personnel, personnel management, health programmes, maternal welfare, maternal health services, niger
This report describes pioneering work where quality improvement methods are being applied to strengthen human resources management and performance at the facility, district, and regional management levels to improve maternal care in Niger’s Tahoua Region.

What you count is what you target : the implications of maternal death classification for tracking progress towards reducing maternal mortality in developing countries

Cross, Suzanne and Bell, Jacqueline S. and Graham, Wendy J. | 2010
  • Author(s): Cross, Suzanne and Bell, Jacqueline S. and Graham, Wendy J.
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 147--153
  • Keywords: maternal health services, mortality, developing countries, health planning, evaluation, health policy, ghana, rwanda, south africa
The evidence presented in this article indicates that it is essential that current guide-lines on the planning, monitoring and evaluation of maternal health interventions and programmes are updated to include indirect maternal deaths, such as malaria and hiv/aids.

People, poverty and possibilities in a world of 7 billion

Crossette, Barbara and Kollodge, Richard | cop. 2011
  • Author(s): Crossette, Barbara and Kollodge, Richard
  • Publisher: United nations population fund (UNFPA)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: development, population policy
\\sl276\\slmult1The State of World Population 2011 explores some of these paradoxes from the perspective of individuals and describes the obstacles they confront-and overcome- in trying to build better lives for themselves, their families, communities and nations.
 

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This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents. It shares examples of practical projects and initiatives that have been undertaken to contribute to Millennium Development Goal 5: Improving maternal health, particularly in developing countries. Find your resources in the database.