Obstetric Interventions and Perinatal Mortality in Saudi Arabia
Author : Fozia Mohammad Al-Jawini
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
ISBN :
Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309040965
Book Description
These four papers supplement the book Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World by bringing together data and analyses that would otherwise be difficult to obtain in a single source. The topics addressed are an analysis of the relationship between maternal mortality and changing reproductive patterns; the risks and benefits of contraception; the effects of changing reproductive patterns on infant health; and the psychosocial consequences to women of controlled fertility and contraceptive use.
Reducing Birth Defects
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2003-10-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309166837
Book Description
Each year more than 4 million children are born with birth defects. This book highlights the unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of children and families in developing countries by preventing some birth defects and reducing the consequences of others. A number of developing countries with more comprehensive health care systems are making significant progress in the prevention and care of birth defects. In many other developing countries, however, policymakers have limited knowledge of the negative impact of birth defects and are largely unaware of the affordable and effective interventions available to reduce the impact of certain conditions. Reducing Birth Defects: Meeting the Challenge in the Developing World includes descriptions of successful programs and presents a plan of action to address critical gaps in the understanding, prevention, and treatment of birth defects in developing countries. This study also recommends capacity building, priority research, and institutional and global efforts to reduce the incidence and impact of birth defects in developing countries.
Maternal Critical Care
Author : Marc van de Velde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1107018498
Book Description
Addresses the challenges of managing critically ill obstetric patients, with chapters authored by intensivists/anesthesiologists and obstetricians/maternal-fetal medicine specialists.
The State of the World's Children 2009
Author : UNICEF.
Publisher : UNICEF
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9280643185
Book Description
Having a child remains one of the biggest health risks for women worldwide. Fifteen hundred women die every day while giving birth. That's a half a million mothers every year. UNICEF's flagship publication, The State of the World's Children 2009, addresses maternal mortality, one of the most intractable problems for development work.The difference in pregnancy risk between women in developing countries and their peers in the industrialised world is often termed the greatest health divide in the world. A woman in Niger has a one in seven chance of dying during the course of her lifetime from complications during pregnancy or delivery. That's in stark contrast to the risk for mothers in America, where it's one in 4,800 or in Ireland, where it's just one in 48,000. Addressing that gap is a multidisciplinary challenge, requiring an emphasis on education, human resources, community involvement and social equality. At a minimum, women must be guaranteed antenatal care, skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetrics, and postpartum care. These essential interventions will only be guaranteed within the context of improved education and the abolition of discrimination.
WHO Recommendations for Prevention and Treatment of Maternal Peripartum Infections
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 924154936X
Book Description
The goal of the present guideline is to consolidate guidance for effective interventions that are needed to reduce the global burden of maternal infections and its complications around the time of childbirth. This forms part of WHO's efforts towards improving the quality of care for leading causes of maternal death especially those clustered around the time of childbirth in the post-MDG era. Specifically it presents evidence-based recommendations on interventions for preventing and treating genital tract infections during labour childbirth or puerperium with the aim of improving outcomes for both mothers and newborns. The primary audience for this guideline is health professionals who are responsible for developing national and local health protocols and policies as well as managers of maternal and child health programmes and policy-makers in all settings. The guideline will also be useful to those directly providing care to pregnant women including obstetricians midwives nurses and general practitioners. The information in this guideline will be useful for developing job aids and tools for both pre- and inservice training of health workers to enhance their delivery of care to prevent and treat maternal peripartum infections.
WHO Recommendations for Augmentation of Labour
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9241507365
Book Description
Optimizing outcomes for women in labor at the global level requires evidence-based guidance of health workers to improve care through appropriate patient selection and use of effective interventions. In this regard, the World Health Organization (WHO) published recommendations for induction of labor in 2011. The goal of the present guideline is to consolidate the guidance for effective interventions that are needed to reduce the global burden of prolonged labor and its consequences. The primary target audience includes health professionals responsible for developing national and local health protocols and policies, as well as obstetricians, midwives, nurses, general medical practitioners, managers of maternal and child health programs, and public health policy-makers in all settings.
The Vulva
Author : Miranda A. Farage
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1498752454
Book Description
A unique compilation of expertise on anatomy, physiology, clinical issues, and current research, this textbook analyzes the range of presentation with age, ethnicity, symptoms, disorders, diagnoses, and toxicity. The second edition of this essential resource for anyone taking care of female patients has been doubled in scope to include additional chapters. All physicians, whether dermatologists or gynaecologists, as well as those researching the scientific evidence and symptoms, will benefit from the experience of the expert contributors and editors gathered here.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN :
Book Description
The World Health Report 2005
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2005-03-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9241562900
Book Description
Each year, almost 11 million children under five years of age die from largely preventable causes, whilst about half a million women die in pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. This year's report focuses on maternal, newborn and child health issues as an integral part of progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals targets and promoting poverty reduction. It identifies exclusion as a key feature of inequity as well as a barrier to progress, and sets out strategies required to ensure universal access to health care and social health insurance systems for every mother and child, through a continuum that extends from pregnancy through childbirth, the neonatal period and childhood.
