Maternal Health – Lessons Learned

Improving women's health : issues and interventions

Tinker, Anne and Finn, Kathleen and Epp, Joanne | 2000
  • Author(s): Tinker, Anne and Finn, Kathleen and Epp, Joanne
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health, maternal welfare, mortality
This paper identifies key determinants of women's health, discusses women's health needs in the developing world, and recommends cost-effective interventions that address the major causes of death and disability among women in developing countries.

A strategy to increase the number of deliveries with skilled birth attendants in Kenya

Tomedi, Angelo and Tucker, Katherine and Mwanthi, Mutuku A. | 2012
  • Author(s): Tomedi, Angelo and Tucker, Katherine and Mwanthi, Mutuku A.
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health programmes, maternal welfare, maternal health services, midwives, kenya
To increase the number of deliveries in Kenyan health facilities with assistance from traditional birth attendants. The rate of SBA births in health facilities increased when TBAs were recruited and compensated for bringing women to local health facilities to deliver. [abstract only]

Improving lives through CARE's sexual and reproductive health programs : going the extra mile to provide and sustain family planning services in remote Madagascar

Toth, Catherine and Jaffe, Anthony | 2008
  • Author(s): Toth, Catherine and Jaffe, Anthony
  • Publisher: Cooperative for assistance and relief everywhere (CARE) [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: reproductive health, madagascar
This report describes the outcomes, lessons, next steps and future opportunities of the CARE project in six communes in Madagascar.

Save lives : invest in midwives

Toure, Kadi | 2011
  • Author(s): Toure, Kadi
  • Publisher: [World health organization] (WHO). The Partnership for maternal, newborn & child health (PMNCH) [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: midwives, maternal health services, maternal and child health, maternal welfare
Many maternal and child deaths could be prevented by an increase in skilled birth attendance. Increasing investment in midwifery education, deployment and retention, regulation and oversight should be a core component of national strategies to improve women’s and children’s health.

Adaptation of the Bolivia community postabortion care model in Egypt and Peru

Tran, Caroline and Giri, Kamlesh | 2006
  • Author(s): Tran, Caroline and Giri, Kamlesh
  • Publisher: Extending service delivery (ESD) project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal welfare, abortion, peru, egypt
The original model, which was conducted in Bolivia, was appropriately adapted for the cultural, social and clinical settings present in Peru and Egypt. This document will elaborate each of the country experiences and provide further details of the similarities and differences of the adaptations.
 

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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.