Turning Tide Safe Motherhood

Emphasizing the importance of strengthening the district "First Referral Level" hospitals and health centres, and linking them with community-based networks for maternal care, this book can be used as a field handbook, as well as a textbook. It features practical guidelines to use and adapt.

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In developing countries, maternal death rates are typically 1000 per 100,000 live births, compared to 30 per 100,000 in the UK. The global "Safe Motherhood Initiative", supported by UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, WHO, IPPF, The Population Council and Family Care International aims to turn the tide through setting up safe motherhood community health projects in developing countries. This manual, prepared in the style of the author's successful Partners in Evaluation, shows how to set up and run such projects. The author is involved in planning the initiative and the market will be the agencies which support it, the staff of the community health projects set up and students of maternal and child health.