Title: Are skilled birth attendants really skilled? : a measurement method, some disturbing results and a potential way forward

Authors: Harvey, Steven A.

Place: [Geneva]

Publisher: World health organization (WHO)

Year: 2007

Journal: Bulletin of the World health organization

Volume: vol. 85, no. 10

PAGE: 783--[793]

Subject: Maternal Health – Lessons Learned

Keywords: midwives, health personnel, vocational training, ecuador, nicaragua, niger

Abstract: There is a wide gap between current evidence-based standards and provider competence to manage selected obstetric and neonatal complications. The paper discusses approaches to close it and describes briefly current efforts to do so in Ecuador, Nicaragua and Niger.

URL: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/10/06-038455/en/

Document type: E-article