Quality midwifery care for mothers and newborns
Overview
When midwives are educated to international standards, and midwifery includes the provision of family planning, it could avert more than 80% of all maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths. The Framework for action to strengthen midwifery education is a guide to develop high quality, sustainable pre- and in-service education to save lives. It has been developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the International Convention of Midwives and includes a seven-step action plan.
Priorities
- Education - Strengthening midwifery education is vital to improving quality of care.
- Empowerment - Midwifery personnel have the solutions – their voices need to be heard.
- Evidence - Research priorities inform better ways of providing sustainable, high quality care.
- Public health - Midwifery has a strong public health function, for example through ensuring access to clean water and sanitation during childbirth, supporting breastfeeding mothers, delivering family planning services and tobacco cessation in pregnancy.
Publications
Strengthening midwifery toolkit
Midwifery education modules
The six modules aim to help skilled practitioners think critically and make effective decisions on the basis of solid knowledge and understanding of these...
Midwives’ Voices Midwives’ Realities
This report documents the voices and experiences of 2 470 midwifery personnel who provide care to childbearing women and their newborns in 93 countries....
Strengthening quality midwifery education for Universal Health Coverage 2030: Framework...
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