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Archive: Jun 2015
Measuring Content of Contacts Reveals Missed Opportunities to Deliver Quality Maternal and Newborn Health Care
Content of maternal and newborn health care needs to be measured to improve the quality of contacts between families and health workers, highlights research carried out by the IDEAS project, and published in PLoS ONE. The number of families that had…
How Midwives Can Answer the World’s Maternal Health Woes
By: Linnea Bennett, Intern, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center
This blog post originally appeared on NewSecurityBeat.org
The world is about to hit a “turning point” in maternal and newborn health, said Laura Laski,…
Swept Under the Carpet: The Psychological Side of Maternal Health
In high-income countries, as many as 10 to 15 percent of women experience depression, anxiety, or other non-psychotic mental health challenges during pregnancy or the year after giving birth. In developing countries, the chances rise to 16 percent of…