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Maternal health. Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period. Each stage should be a positive experience, ensuring women and their babies reach their full potential for health and well-being. Although important progress has been made in the last two decades, about 287 000 women died during ...
May 2, 2017 · The objective of this document is to make available WHO recommendations on maternal health in one easy-to-access document for WHO staff, policy-makers, programme managers, and health professionals. The compilation can also help better define gaps to prioritize guideline updates. This document is meant to respond to the questions:
Mar 30, 2022 · This guideline aims to improve the quality of essential, routine postnatal care for women and newborns with the ultimate goal of improving maternal and newborn health and well-being. A positive postnatal experience is defined as one in which women, newborns, partners, parents, caregivers and families receive information, reassurance and support in a consistent manner from motivated health ...
Mar 28, 1996 · This practical guide explains how the new WHO Mother-Baby Package can be used as a powerful tool for improving the health of mothers and infants - immediately and dramatically. Designed for use in national programmes in the developing world, the package consists of 18 simple interventions that have often their capacity to reduce maternal and infant mortality in resource-poor settings.
Maternity leave duration: The mother's right to a period of rest in relation to childbirth is a crucial means of safeguarding health and nutrition of the mother and her child. Convention No. 183 states that maternity leave should not be less than 14 weeks, while Recommendation No. 191 suggests that maternity leave be at least 18 weeks. Amount ...
Promoting healthy pregnancy. Antenatal care - regular contact with skilled health personnel during pregnancy - is a core component of maternity care, grounded in a human rights-based approach. WHO recommends that women should have eight contacts with a health provider during pregnancy to screen for potential complications and treat problems as ...
Aug 20, 2020 · Quality of care is fundamental to WHO’s approach to maternity care Every pregnancy and birth is unique, meaning that the best intrapartum care for each woman and her baby is individualized as well as evidence-based.This principle of person-centred care is reflected across all WHO guidance on maternal health and enshrined in the 2016 framework for improving quality of maternal and newborn ...
The days and weeks following childbirth—the postnatal period—are a critical phase in the lives of mothers and newborn babies. Most maternal and infant deaths occur in the first month after birth: almost half of postnatal maternal deaths occur within the first 24 hours,1 and 66% occur during the first week.2 In 2013, 2.8 million newborns ...
Jul 12, 2017 · Safe Motherhood Week. 12 July 2017. In the second week of May every year, the Philippines observes safe motherhood week in order to promote maternal health and nutrition. In the Philippines, the rate of babies born in health facilities (known as the facility based delivery rate) has risen significantly in the past few years.
Maternal mental health. Worldwide about 10% of pregnant women and 13% of women who have just given birth experience a mental disorder, primarily depression. In developing countries this is even higher, i.e. 15.6% during pregnancy and 19.8% after child birth. In severe cases mothers’ suffering might be so severe that they may even commit suicide.
