Course: Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care
Source: Global Health Learning Center
Language: English
Intended users: Public health professionals, programmers, frontline providers
Overview: More than 500,000 women die of pregnancy-related conditions, and an estimated four million newborns die, each year. Yet nearly all of those life-threatening conditions can be addressed effectively with safe low-tech interventions by skilled providers at peripheral health center and district hospital levels. This course describes key technical and programmatic considerations in the implementation of those life-saving interventions.
Examples of topics covered: Emergency obstetric and newborn care
Last updated: October 2007
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