Bueno de Mesquita, Judith and Kismِdi, Eszter | 2012
- Author(s): Bueno de Mesquita, Judith and Kismِdi, Eszter
- Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
- Pages: 79--79A
- Keywords: maternal health services, human rights, maternal mortality
\\sl276\\slmult1The Committee's recommendations with regard to maternal mortality committees and access to effective remedies illustrate how a human rights approach can strengthen accountability for maternal deaths at the national level.
Bullough, Colin and Graham, Wendy | 2004
- Author(s): Bullough, Colin and Graham, Wendy
- Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: mortality, maternal welfare
Reviewing maternal deaths and complications to make pregnancy safer.The approaches described go beyond just counting deaths to developing an understanding of why they happened and how they can be averted.
Bunting, Julia | 2008
- Author(s): Bunting, Julia
- Publisher: The Partnership for maternal, newborn & child health (PMNCH)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: maternal welfare, mortality, child health
This document celebrates success stories from countries with high maternal, newborn and child mortality, and shows specific actions taken towards achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal, newborn and child health.
Byrne, Abbey | 2012
- Author(s): Byrne, Abbey
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: family planning, health policy, health programmes, cultural aspects, contraceptive usage
The barriers to, and successful strategies for, satisfying all demand for modern contraceptives are heavily influenced by context. Local health planners are in a position to devise feasible context-specific activities to increase met need for family planning to accelerate progress towards MDG 5.
Camacho, Alma Virginia and Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman | 2011
- Author(s): Camacho, Alma Virginia and Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman
- Publisher: World health organization (WHO). Department of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (MCA)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: who, developing countries, adolescent pregnancy, reproductive health
The Guidelines provides recommendations on preventing early pregnancy, by increasing knowledge and understanding of the importance of pregnancy prevention, by increasing the use of contraception, by reducing unsafe abortions and by increasing the use of skilled antenatal care.