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ISBN: 978-1-906985-30-1
Page count: 326
Publisher: RCOG Press
Publication year: 2010
The Millennium Development Goals, created under the auspices of the United Nations, presented an opportunity for political, financial, medical and civil society leaders to focus on the huge disparities in global health provision. Goals 4 and 5, which focus on child and maternal outcomes, have proved more challenging than others to deliver. There are only 4 years left for these challenges to be realised.
Chapters cover all the four disciplines (midwifery, obstetrics and gynaecology, anaesthesia and paediatrics) and the authors are all outstanding contributors in this area of global health. Midwives, obstetricians, paediatricians and anaesthetists have provided an up-to-date review that will be an immensely useful reference for all healthcare workers involved in advocacy on behalf of women and children.
The RCOG’s global network has enabled it to draw examples from countries as diverse as Afghanistan and Egypt to produce an overview of the challenges still remaining. This book will prove an essential tool for all those trying to tackle the issues of delivering Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 within the next 4 years.
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Table of contents:
Participants
Declaration of personal interests
Preface
The Millennium Development Goals
SECTION 1 THE SIZE OF THE PROBLEM
1 The geography of maternal death - Wendy Graham, Jacqueline Bell, Ann Fitzmaurice, Sarah Neal, Siti Nurul Qomariyah and Zoë Matthews
2 Delivering on neonatal survival to accelerate progress for Millennium Development Goal - Joy E Lawn, Kate Kerber and Christabel Enweronu-Laryea
3 Beyond the Numbers: reviewing maternal deaths and disabilities to make pregnancy safer - Gwyneth Lewis OBE
4 Human resource challenges - Soo Downe
SECTION 2 CLINICAL PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS – MATERNAL
5 Postpartum haemorrhage - Andrew Weeks
6 Reducing deaths from hypertensive disorders of pregnancy - Robert Pattinson, G Justus Hofmeyr and Carine Ronsmans
7 Obstructed labour (including partograms) - Stephen Munjanja
8 Puerperal sepsis in low- and middle-income settings: past, present and future - Julia Hussein and Leighton Walker
9 Unsafe abortion and strategies to reduce its impact on women’s lives - Caitlin Shannon and Beverly Winikoff
10 HIV and tuberculosis - James McIntyre
11 A pragmatic approach to safe anaesthesia - Kate Grady and Catriona Connolly
SECTION 3 CLINICAL PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS – NEONATAL
12 Innovations for improving newborn survival in developing countries: do integrated strategies for maternal and newborn care matter? - Zulfiqar Bhutta, Saad Seth and Noureen Afzal
13 Community interventions to reduce maternal and child mortality in low-income countries - Audrey Prost, Christina Pagel and Anthony Costello
SECTION 4 TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
14 Capacity development – a midwifery perspective - Frances Day-Stirk
15 Increasing the capacity for essential obstetric and newborn care - Nynke van den Broek and Jan Hofman
16 The role of the Royal Colleges in training and development - Anthony Falconer (RCOG), Kate Grady (RCoA), Frances Day-Stirk (RCM) and Stephen Allen (RCPCH)
SECTION 5 SPECIFIC CHALLENGES IN SPECIFIC COUNTRIES
17 Challenges faced in Afghanistan - Jacqueline Hill and Eric Sinclair
18 Challenges faced in Zimbabwe - Stephen Munjanja
19 How Egypt has overcome the challenges - Oona Campbell, Lauren Foster Mustardé, Nevine Hassanein and Karima Khalil
20 Learning from the achievements in Sri Lanka - Harshalal Seneviratne
SECTION 6 CONSENSUS VIEWS
21 Consensus views arising from the 58th Study Group: Maternal and Infant Deaths: Chasing Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5
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