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Making It Happen: Training health-care providers in emergency obstetric and newborn care

Ameh, Charles ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2341-7605 and van den Broek, Nynke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8523-2684 (2015) 'Making It Happen: Training health-care providers in emergency obstetric and newborn care'. Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Vol 29, Issue 8, pp. 1077-1091.

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Abstract

An estimated 289,000 maternal deaths, 2.6 million stillbirths and 2.4 million newborn deaths occur globally each year, with the majority occurring around the time of childbirth. The medical and surgical interventions to prevent this loss of life are known, and most maternal and newborn deaths are in principle preventable. There is a need to build the capacity of health-care providers to recognize and manage complications during pregnancy, childbirth and the post-partum period. Skills-and-drills competency-based training in skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and early newborn care (EmONC) is an approach that is successful in improving knowledge and skills. There is emerging evidence of this resulting in improved availability and quality of care. To evaluate the effectiveness of EmONC training, operational research using an adapted Kirkpatrick framework and a theory of change approach is needed. The Making It Happen programme is an example of this.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: pregnancy complications; newborn; emergency care; in-service training; health-care providers
Subjects: WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 310 Maternal welfare
WQ Obstetrics > WQ 20 Research (General)
WQ Obstetrics > Pregnancy Complications > WQ 240 Pregnancy complications (General)
WQ Obstetrics > Labor > WQ 330 Complications of labor
WS Pediatrics > By Age Groups > WS 420 Newborn infants. Neonatology
Faculty: Department: Clinical Sciences & International Health > International Public Health Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2015.03.019
Depositing User: Lynn Roberts-Maloney
Date Deposited: 27 Aug 2015 08:25
Last Modified: 06 Sep 2019 09:14
URI: https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/5274

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