This book is intended to be a user-friendly, straightforward resource for the people involved in conducting an audit. It is designed for use by district or facility level physicians, midwives and nurses, administrators, directors, and other health professionals committed to improving the quality of emergency obstetric care by identifying weaknesses and acting on recommendations.

This paper examines the frequency with which a set of life-saving interventions or signal functions was performed to treat major obstetric complications

This paper discusses the basic concepts underlying the costing of EmOC services, and the essential issues one must take into account while assessing the cost-effectiveness of EmOC interventions.

This paper and this Task Force of the Millennium Project focus on child health and maternal health.

Issued by UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA, the indicators described in the article present a logical sequence of how program managers of a country’s Safe Motherhood program may want to prioritize their activities, beginning with coverage and moving on to performance.

This paper examines the availability of basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care (EmOC) interventions used to treat direct obstetric complications.

This article provides interesting insights into the quality of obstetric care by direct observation of the process of service delivery, as well the perceptions of patients, clinical staff and other stakeholders.  It shows that several management problems constrain the delivery of high quality services.

The Dinajpur SafeMother Initiative (DSI) was designed to test the impact of several interventions on use of obstetric services in government health facilities in Northwestern Bangladesh during 1998—2001

This paper argues for an additional indicator for measuring progress of the Millennium Development Goal for maternal health—the availability of emergency obstetric care.

The second annual meeting of partners in the Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program brought together more than 200 participants in Bangkok, Thailand.  They came together to share experiences in and methods for reducing death and disability due to complications of pregnancy.

This article establishes a baseline for the availability, utilization, and quality of EmOC, and to help develop an operational strategy based on the findings.

This article examines several factors that contribute to the efficiency of a hospital.

The article summarises the baseline assessments of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) carried out in Uganda, Kenya, Southern Sudan, and Rwanda in 2003 and 2004.

This is the sixth Program Note in a series that features the UN Process Indicators for monitoring obstetric services. Issued by UNICEF, WHO, and UNFPA, the indicators are used to identify the availability, use, and to some extent, quality of emergency obstetric care (EmOC).

This is the second program note in a series that features UN process indicators for monitoring obstetric services. Issued by UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA, they are used to identify the availability, use, and, to some extent, quality of emergency obstetric care EmOC.

This article presents a tool that can be used to assess the readiness of a health facility to provide emergency obstetric care.

This is the third Program note in a series that features the UN process indicators for monitoring obstetric services . Issued by UNICEF,WHO and UNFPA, they are used to identify the availability, use, and, to some extent, quality of emergency obstetric care (EmOC). They are also useful at monitoring changes in these three important aspects of health care.

This is the fourth Program Note in a series that features the UN process indicators for monitoring obstetric services. Issued by UNICEF,WHO and UNFPA, the indicators are used to identify the availability, use, and, to some extent, quality of emergency obstetric care (EmOC).

With support from the Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, CARE began the FEMME Project in 2000 to increase access and utilization of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services for the approximately 48,000 pregnant women in the northern provinces of Ayacucho. With support from the Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, CARE began the FEMME Project in 2000 to increase access and utilization of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services for the approximately 48,000 pregnant women in the northern provinces of Ayacucho.

This is the fifth Program note in a series that features the UN process indicators for monitoring obstetric services. Issued by UNICEF,WHO and UNFPA, they are used to identify the availability, use, and, to some extent, quality of emergency obstetric care (EmOC).