Resources

Maternal health

Alphabetical order

• 2010 Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010)
  Countdown to 2015 Initiative (2010)
• A Women and Health Agenda: It's Time
  Harvard Public Health Review (2010)
• Accelerating Action on the MDGs: Delivering for Girls, Women and Babies
  Women Deliver (2010)
• Action briefs for children
  UNICEF (2009)
• Adding it up: The benefits of investing in sexual and reproductive health care
  UNFPA (2004)
• AED in Action: Improving Women’s Health in India
  AED (2009)
• Afghan women train as midwives
  CNN (2009)
• Antenatal care in the Gambia: Missed opportunity for information, education, and communication
  BioMed Central (BMC) Pregnancy and Childbirth (2008)
• Art for Health Project
• Association of maternal height with child mortality, anthropometric failure, and anemia in India
  Journal of the American Medical Association (2009)
• Association of Maternal Stature With Offspring Mortality, Underweight, and Stunting in Low- to Middle-Income Countries
  JAMA (2010)
• Atlas of Birth
  The White Ribbon Alliance (2009)
• Because maternal health is a human right
  8 MARCH 2010 - Pregnancy is not a disease, yet it kills one woman every minute
• Breast cancer in the developing world: Meeting the unforeseen challenge to women, health and equity
  Harvard School of Public Health (2009)
• Campaign to End Fistula
  UNFPA (2003)
• Catalogue of publications
  Family Care International (2008)
• Communication for childbirth
  The Communication Initiative (2009)
• Counselling for maternal and newborn health care: A handbook for building skills
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Counselling for maternal and newborn health care: A handbook for building skills
  World Health Organization (2010)
• Countdown to 2015 dfor maternal, newborn & child survival: Press release
  The Lancet (2010)
• Coverage of cervical cancer screening in 57 countries: Low average levels and large inequalities
  PLOS Medicine (2008)
• Dying to give birth: Fighting maternal mortality In Peru
  Health Affairs (2009)
• e-learning publication: WomensHealthSection.com
  Women's Health and Education Center (WHEC) (2008)
• Education key to preventing early pregnancies
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2009)
• Effectiveness of interventions to address health inequalities in the early years: A review of relevant literature (The)
  Scottish Government, Health Analytical Services Division (2008)
• Effects of the World Bank’s maternal and child health intervention on Indonesia’s poor: Evaluating the safe motherhood project
  Social Science & Medicine (2010)
• El estado de la salud sexual y reproductiva en América Latina y el Caribe: una visión global
  Inter-American Development Bank (2008)
• ELDIS information resources
  ELDIS (2007)
• Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women
  UN Commission on the Status of Women (March 2010)
• Essential MNCH Knowledge: A portal to RMNCH resources
• Evaluation of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood 1999-2007
  USAID (2007)
• Everything you want to know about healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy
  USAID (2008)
• Evidence-based maternity care: What it is and what it can achieve
  Childbirth Connection, the Reforming States Group, and the Milbank Memorial Fund (2008)
• Factors that persuaded a group of nurses to establish a private maternity care centre in Nepal
  Aadharhut Prasuti Sewa Kendra (2009)
• Faith-based models for improving maternal and newborn health
  USAID, ACCESS (2007)
• Family planning and the path to progress
  Dot Earth Blog (2009)
• Fourth Edition of Life-Saving Skills Manual to Debut in 2008
  American College of Nurse-Midwives (2008)
• Full document: Global Strategy for Women's and Children's health
  United Nations Secretary-General (2010)
• Gender equality now: Accelerating the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
  UNIFEM (2008)
• Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it
  Global Public Health (2008)
• Global Library of Women's Medicine
  (2008)
• Global report on preterm birth & stillbirth: the foundation for innovative solutions and improved outcomes
  Global Allliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (2010)
• How can child and maternal mortality be cut?
  BMJ (2010)
• How Japan reduced maternal mortality in one generation
  Immpact, University of Aberdeen (2008)
• HTSP 101: Everything you want to know about healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy
  Extending Service Deliver (ESD) Project (2008)
• Hunger and malnutrition
  Copenhagen Consensus Center (2008)
• Ignorance and negligence propel towards the death of the expecting mother
  Aadharhut Prasuti Sewa Kendra (2009)
• Images from Darfur: UNFPA photo-exhibit January 2008
  UNFPA (2008)
• Indonesia Clinical Training Video: "Early Initiation of Breastfeeding"
  John Snow, Inc. (2008)
• Integration of Prenatal Care with the Testing and Treatment of HIV and Syphilis in Peru
  Harvard Medical School (2009)
• Intervention involving traditional birth attendants and perinatal and maternal mortality in Pakistan
  New England Journal of Medicine (2005)
• Investing in our common future: Joint Action Plan for Women's and Children's Health
  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (2010)
• It's The Skin You're In: African-American Women Talk About Their Experiences of Racism
  Maternal Child Health J. (2008 )
• Key Findings from an Evaluation of the Mothers2mothers Program in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  Population Council (2007)
• Kindling hope in Northern Ethiopia by keeping adolescent girls in school
  UNFPA (2008)
• Lancet Series: Maternal and child undernutrition (The)
  The Lancet (2008)
• Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula and Inequities in Maternal Health
  UNFPA and FCI (2007))
• Making pregnancy safer : Annual report 2007
  World Health Organization (2008)
• Making Pregnancy Safer: : 78 ¨country profiles focus on maternal + newborn health
  World Health Organization (2009)
• marathon’s not over (The)
  The Economist (2008)
• Maternal and child health in Namibia
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Maternal and Child Health Library
  Georgetown University, USA (2008)
• Maternal health
  Soul Beat Issue (2008)
• Maternal Health Task Force
  EngenderHealth (2009)
• Maternal Health: Investing in the Lifeline of Healthy Societies & Economies
  Africa Progress Panel (2010)
• Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5
  Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2010)
• Maternal mortality update: Delivering into good hands
  UNFPA (2004)
• Maternal survival toolkit
  Change Project (2009)
• Maternal, neonatal and child health interventions and services: moving from knowledge of what works to systems that deliver
  International Health 2010)
• Maternal, newborn, child and reproductive health
  Global Health Council (2010)
• Measuring maternal mortality: An overview of opportunities and options for developing countries
  BMC Medicine (2008)
• Millennium Development Goals and sexual and reproductive health: The perspective of Latin America and Caribbean youth (The )
  Family Care International (2008)
• Missing: A message about maternal mortality
  UNICEF (2009)
• MMM-R: New maternal mortality website launched
• MotherNewBorNet
  ICDDR,B (2008)
• Mothers and infants to get free health care in Sierra Leone
  The Lancet (2010)
• Non communicable diseases: A priority for women's health and development
  NCD Alliance (2011)
• Overcoming social and health inequalities among U.S. women of reproductive age
  Health Policy (2008)
• Packages of interventions for family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and child health
  World Health Organization (2010)
• Participatory Assessment of Gugar Goge, an Entertainment-Education Radio Soap Opera in Nigeria - A Qualitative Assessment Report
  Population Media Center (2007)
• PMNCH Knowledge Summaries (KS): Introduction
• PMNCH Knowledge Summaries: #13 - Make stillbirths count
• PMNCH Knowledge Summaries: #14 - Save lives: invest in midwives
• PMNCH Knowledge Summaries: #15 - Non-communicable diseases
• PMNCH Knowledge Summaries: #16 - Parliamentarians
• Poverty, near-poverty, and hardship around the time of pregnancy
  Maternal and Child Health Journal (2010)
• Pregnant women in Nigeria die due to Government negligence, according to Center for Reproductive Rights’ new report
  Centre for Reproductive Rights (2008)
• Progress for children: A report card on maternal mortality
  UNICEF (2008)
• Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009: Who answers to Women? Gender and accountability
  UNIFEM (2008)
• Radio Podcast: Delivering on the front lines: Maternal health in conflict, post-conflict and emergency situations
  UNICEF/UN (2008)
• Radio podcast: Supporting and protecting mothers living with HIV
  UNICEF/UN (2008)
• Reducing maternal deaths: evidence and action
  UK Department of International Development (2007)
• Saving maternal lives in resource-poor settings: Facing reality
  Health Policy (2008)
• Saving mothers and newborns initiative
  FIGO (2007)
• Scientists without borders maternal health and nutrition challenge
  Scientists Without Borders (2010)
• Series on maternal and newborn health
  UNICEF (2009)
• Smoking, tobacco exposure and pregnancy, a serious issue
  Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica (2010)
• Social determinants of sexual and reproductive health: informing future research and programme implementation
  World Health Organization (2010)
• Social protection in health schemes for mother and child population: lessons learned from the Latin American Region
  PAHO (2008)
• Standard Days Method®: Expanding family planning options
  The Institute for Reproductive Health (2009)
• State of the World Children 2009
  15 JANUARY 2009 | JOHANESBURG/NEW YORK/GENEVA - Women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in developed countries, according to UNICEF’s latest State of the World’s Children report.
• State of the World Mothers 2010: Women on the front lines of health care
  Save the Children (2010)
• State of the world's mothers 2006: Saving the lives of mothers and newborns
  Save the Children (2006)
• State of the world's mothers 2009: Investing in the early years
  Save the Children (May 2009)
• Strengthening postnatal care services including postpartum family planning in Kenya
  Frontiers in Reproductive Health, Population Council, ACCESS-FP, Jhpiego (2008)
• Study on maternal mortality and neonatal morbidity in Africa
  Rural Integrated Relief Service-Ghana (2008)
• Systematic Review on Human Resources for Health Interventions to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes: Evidence from Developing Countries
  Aga Khan University (2010)
• Technical/clinical resources for safe motherhood and publications
  White Ribbon Alliance (2008)
• The Lancet Maternal Series
  The Lancet (2006)
• The true cost of unwanted babies
  The Guardian: Sarah Boseley's Global Health Blog (26 February 2010)
• Tracking maternal mortality declines in Mongolia between 1992 and 2007: the importance of collaboration
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2010)
• Tracking progress on child and maternal nutrition: A survival and development priority
  UNICEF (2009)
• Traditional reproductive health care practices affecting community women in accessing their reproductive rights of maternal health care among the Ethnic Groups of Project Areas in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa: An anthropological study
  Bhoruka Public Welfare Trust (2008)
• Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2008
  WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank (2010)
• Ugandan love letters pull men to fetal heartbeats
  Women's eNews (2007)
• UK Parliament report highlights maternal deaths
  International Development Committee, United Kingdom (2008)
• UNFPA: Adding it Up: The costs and benefits of investing in family planning and maternal health
  3 DECEMBER 2009 | NEW YORK– Maternal deaths in developing countries could be slashed by 70% and newborn deaths cut nearly in half if the world doubled investment in family planning and pregnancy-related care, shows a new report by the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
• United Nations Human Rights Council 2010 Resolution on maternal health
  Human Rights Council (2010)
• United Nations Human Rights Council recognises maternal mortality as human rights concern
  Human Rights Council (2009)
• Unsafe abortion in 2008: global and regional levels and trends
  Reproductive Health Matters (2010)
• Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health: history, connections and a proposed practical approach
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2008)
• Using the Millennium Development Goals to Realize Women’s Reproductive Rights
  Centre for Reproductive Rights (2008)
• Walk to beautiful
  Engel Entertainment (2008)
• What you count is what you target: the implications of maternal death classification for tracking progress towards reducing maternal mortality in developing countries
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2010)
• White Ribbon Alliance publications and guides
  White Ribbon Alliance (2008)
• WHO Guidelines for the management of postpartum haemorrhage and retained placenta
  WHO (2009)
• WHO guidelines for the management of postpartum haemorrhage and retained placenta
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Women Deliver : Put Yourself on the Maternal Health Map!
  Women Deliver, in partnership with the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth, is conducting a mapping of all organizations working on maternal health issues.
• Women, mobilisation and empowerment
  The Communication Initiative (2009)
• Working together for better health
  UK Department of International Development (2007)
• World abortion policies
  United Nations, Population Division (2007)