A Little Respect: Improving Maternity Care
In a webinar hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force and Ariadne Labs, speakers discussed the importance of respectful maternity care (RMC) and strategies for integrating RMC principles into quality improvement initiatives globally...read more
Categories: Cross-post Quality of Maternal Health Care Respectful Maternity Care Series
Topics: Education Facility-based Births Gender-based Violence Health Systems Human Resources for Health Policy & Advocacy Quality of Care Respectful Maternity Care Social Determinants
The Best Available Tools to Measure Women’s Childbirth Experiences
Understanding women’s experiences during childbirth is an important component of addressing issues related to the quality of maternal health care. However, measuring the quality of maternal health care, and specifically women’s experiences, is notoriously difficult. A recent paper reviewed existing measurement tools that aim to capture women’s childbirth experiences and offered recommendations...read more
Categories: Maternal Health
Topics: Facility-based Births Monitoring & Evaluation Quality of Care Respectful Maternity Care Technology & Innovation