منابع مشابه
The Safe Motherhood Initiative and beyond.
In 2007, the Safe Motherhood Initiative is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Many countries have been able to improve the health and well-being of mothers and newborns over the last 20 years. However, countries with the highest burdens of mortality and illness have made the least progress, and inequalities between countries are increasing. In many places, inequalities within countries are incre...
متن کاملSafe motherhood initiative: 20 years and counting.
1130 www.thelancet.com Vol 368 September 30, 2006 The global campaign to reduce maternal mortality was launched in February, 1987, when three UN agencies— UNFPA, the World Bank, and WHO—sponsored the international Safe Motherhood Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. The event aimed to raise awareness about the numbers of women dying each year from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, and to chal...
متن کامل'Single Dose MgSo4 Regimen' for Eclampsia - A Safe Motherhood Initiative.
OBJECTIVES To determine the efficacy and the safety of the single dose MgSo4 ('VIMS') regimen in treating eclamptic seizures and their effect on the maternal and foetal outcomes. METHODS A prospective, observational study was conducted in the period from 2003 to 2007. 513 eclamptic women who were admitted to the Dept of OBG, VIMS, Bellary, received single doses of 4g diluted 50% Mgso4 intrave...
متن کامل“Playing the Numbers Game”: Evidence-based Advocacy and the Technocratic Narrowing of the Safe Motherhood Initiative
Based on an ethnography of the international Safe Motherhood Initiative (SMI), this article charts the rise of evidence-based advocacy (EBA), a term global-level maternal health advocates have used to indicate the use of scientific evidence to bolster the SMI's authority in the global health arena. EBA represents a shift in the SMI's priorities and tactics over the past two decades, from a call...
متن کاملThe safe motherhood initiative: The development and implementation of standardized obstetric care bundles in New York.
The medical literature demonstrates that inadequate hospital protocols or the lack of consistent protocols for diagnosis, management, consultation, and/or referral can lead to confusion and unnecessary variation in patient care. Incongruities in clinical settings have been repeatedly shown to compromise quality of patient outcomes. Accordingly, the development and adoption of standardized proto...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.07.045963