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Maternal Health – Lessons Learned

Rethinking cash transfers to promote maternal health : good practice from developing countries

Jones, Nicola | 2011
  • Author(s): Jones, Nicola
  • Publisher: Overseas development institute (ODI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: developing countries, family planning, maternal health services, maternal welfare
This note reviews the evidence on conditional cash transfers to promote safe motherhood - a concept that spans not only care during pregnancy and childbirth, but access to family planning and equitable health services - comparing them to other approaches to maternal health programming.

How effective are family-planning programs at improving the lives of women? : some perspectives from a vast literature

Joshi, Shareen | 2011
  • Author(s): Joshi, Shareen
  • Publisher: World bank]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: family planning, health programmes, maternal health services
This paper examines the economic and demographic literature on family planning programs and summarizes evidence of their impact on fertility as well as additional outcomes such as child mortality.

Individual and health facility factors and the risk for obstructed labour and its adverse outcomes in south-western Uganda

Kabakyenga, Jerome K. | 2011
  • Author(s): Kabakyenga, Jerome K.
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: pregnancy, maternal mortality, maternal health services, uganda
Individual socio-demographic and health system factors are strongly associated with obstructed labour and its adverse outcome in south-western Uganda. This study provides baseline information which may be used by policy makers and implementers to improve implementation of safe motherhood programmes.

PATH, Kenya : using scouting as a vehicle for reaching out-of-school youth

Kahuthia, George and Radeny, Samson | [ca. 2009]
  • Author(s): Kahuthia, George and Radeny, Samson
  • Publisher: YouthNet
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: reproductive health, kenya
Scouting was identified as a potentially effective way to reach out-of-school youth with reproductive health information. This project in Kenya confirmed this statement.

Maternal death inquiry and response in India : the impact of contextual factors on defining an optimal model to help meet critical maternal health policy objectives

Kalter, Henry D. | 2011
  • Author(s): Kalter, Henry D.
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal health services, maternal mortality, india
District and state government must mandate and support the process, while the district health office should provide coordination, and organize a highly participatory means of sharing the findings with the community and developing evidence-based maternal health interventions.
 

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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.