Maternal and perinatal health in developing countries
By: edited by Julia Hussein, Affette McCaw-Binns, and Roger Webber
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wallingford, Oxfordshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781845937454
Subjects: Perinatal Mortality; Maternal Mortality; Developing Countries; Maternal Health Services; Perinatal Care
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to maternal and perinatal health / Julia Hussein ... [et al.]; title: The millennium development goals / Affette McCaw-Binns and Julia Hussein; title: The politics of progress : the story of maternal mortality / Wendy J. Graham; title: The epidemiology of maternal mortality / Cynthia Stanton and Affette McCaw-Binns; title: The epidemiology of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths / Cynthia Stanton and Joy E. Lawn; title: Health systems / Dileep V. Mavalankar and Parvathy Sankara Raman; title: Financing maternity care / Sophie Witter and Tim Ensor; title: Implementing clinical interventions within maternal health programmes / Ana Langer ... [et al.]; title: Medical conditions in pregnancy : preventing and managing indirect obstetric morbidity / Roger Webber, Affette McCaw-Binns, and Julia Hussein; title: Improving the availability of services / Ann Phoya ... [et al.]; title: Geographical access, transport, and referral systems / Stephen P. Munjanja, Tsitsi Magure, and Gwendoline Kandawasvika; title: Demand for maternity care : beliefs, behaviour, and social access / Zubia Mumtaz and Adrienne Levay; title: Empowering the community : BRAC's approach in Bangladesh / Kaosar Afsana; title: Quality of care / Endang Achadi, Emma Pitchforth, and Julia Hussein; title: Monitoring and evaluation / Sennen Hounton ... [et al.]; title: Addressing maternal health in emergency settings / Linda Bartlett ... [et al.].