Brief on MCHIP work in Latin America and the Caribbean to improve maternal health by increasing efforts to prevent and treat postpartum hemorrhage, conducting formative research on the determinants of high cesarean birth rates, promoting pre-eclampsia guidelines, and improving service capacity and quality as well as midwifery education. (Availalbe in both English and Spanish.)
Newborn Health: LAC
Brief on MCHIP work in Latin America and the Caribbean to improve newborn health by participating in the LAC Alliance, addressing quality improvement, promoting south-to-south learning, and supporting the scale up of evidence-based methods to address the most pressing neonatal health risks. (Available in both English and Spanish.)
Administration of Antenatal Corticosteroids: A Key Intervention to Reduce Mortality and Morbidity Associated with Prematurity
This brief discusses antenatal corticosteroids as a proven technology that is inexpensive and an appropriate intervention to reduce mortality and morbidity associated with prematurity in low-, middle- and high-income countries.
WHO Recommendations on Prevention and Treatment of Postpartum Haemorrhage: Highlights and Key Messages from New 2012 Global Recommendations
In March 2012, the WHO held a Technical Consultation on the Prevention and Treatment of Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) to review current evidence and to update previously published PPH guidelines. The new guidelines combine previous documents to address both prevention and treatment—recognizing the importance of integrated care. This brief summarizes key messages from the new WHO guidelines, with a focus on …
Active Management of the Third Stage of Labor: New WHO recommendations help to focus implementation
Brief outlining what is new and different about AMTSL recommendations following a 2012 WHO technical consultation to review global evidence related to the prevention and management of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). Translations in French, Portuguese and Spanish are also available below.
Delayed Clamping of the Umbilical Cord to Reduce Infant Anaemia
In the 2012 WHO Recommendations for the Prevention and Treatment of Postpartum Haemorrhage, WHO reiterates its previous recommendation of waiting to clamp and cut the umbilical cord following the birth of the baby. The purpose of this briefer is to describe the benefits of the intervention and why it is not currently being used, so that delayed cord clamping can be …
Informal meeting on provision of home-based care to mother and child in the first week after birth
Three years after the 2009 joint statement from WHO and UNICEF recommended home visits for newborn care during the first week of life, 30 of 58 African and Asian countries have a related policy. This report, from a February 2012 meeting, captures the experiences implementing these programs and the context of postnatal care in which these visits are happening.
Quality of Care: Interview and Knowledge Test
Part of a series of MCHIP Quality of Care tools, these questions capture training and experience of the health worker and then test their knowledge of how to identify, manage and treat common maternal and newborn health complications. It includes a simulated resuscitation with a newborn model to assess newborn resuscitation skills.
Quality of Care: Clinical Practice Observation of Antenatal Care and Labor & Delivery
Part of a series of MCHIP Quality of Care tools, these structured clinical observation checklists are for use in observation of antenatal care (ANC) consultations and labor and delivery (vaginal deliveries only) at facilities. The content of the checklists was developed based on World Health Organization guidelines and includes: screening for pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) in ANC; management of PE/E and prevention of postpartum hemorrhage …
Quality of Care: Essential Inventory
Part of a series of MCHIP Quality of Care tools, this document is used to report infrastructure conditions and verify availability and storage conditions of medications, supplies and equipment. It includes a short record review to capture the number of antental care consultations and deliveries at each facility for the last year, based on the health management information system (HMIS) …