The Lancet Maternal Health Series published in September 2016 contains six papers highlighting the importance of improving access to high quality maternal health care for all women across the globe. In paper 3, “The scale, scope, coverage, and capability of childbirth care,” Campbell and colleagues examine the adequacy of global intrapartum care with a particular focus on who helps women deliver and where those deliveries take place. They also recommend strategies for improving access to high quality maternal health care…read more
The Global and National Maternal Mortality Targets for the Sustainable Development Goals
Posted onThere has been some confusion recently about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets for reducing maternal mortality. The SDG global target is to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030. In addition to this global target, there are separate country-level targets: The primary national target is that every country should reduce its MMR by at least two-thirds from 2010 baseline levels by 2030. The secondary target, which applies to countries with the highest maternal mortality burdens, is that no country should have an MMR greater than 140 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030…read more
Use of Robson classification to assess cesarean section rate in Brazil: The role of source of payment for childbirth
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Posted onEnding preventable maternal mortality: Maternal Death Review and Surveillance (MDSR) system launched in Myanmar
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Posted onCelebrating One Year Since the 2015 Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference
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Exactly one year has passed since the 2015 Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, an event organized by the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) in collaboration with USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program, Saving Newborn Lives at Save the Children and other partners. Researchers, policymakers, funders, implementers and other stakeholders from around the world gathered in Mexico City to share new evidence, identify knowledge and implementation gaps, build inter-disciplinary consensus and discuss strategies for integrating and improving global maternal newborn health…read more
Asking different questions: Research priorities to improve the quality of care for every woman, every child
Posted onThe Lancet Maternal Health Series: “Beyond Too Little, Too Late and Too Much, Too Soon”
Posted onThe Lancet Maternal Health Series published last month contains six papers highlighting the importance of improving access to high quality maternal health care for all women across the globe. In paper 2, “Beyond too little, too late and too much, too soon: A pathway towards evidence-based, respectful maternity care worldwide,” Miller and colleagues examine two extremes in global obstetric care: Too little, too late and too much, too soon…read more