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 article covers the causes of maternal death and disability, evolution of understanding the problem, central of emergency obstetric care, UN Proces indicators and the AMDD program.

This Article covers the causes of maternal death and disability, evolution of understanding the problem, central of emergency obstetric care, UN Proces indicators and the AMDD program.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

This article covers the causes of maternal death and disability, evolution of understanding the problem, central of emergency obstetric care, UN Proces indicators and the AMDD program.

This document is a facilitator's manual for a short course that primarily targets health program management staff and clinical staff. Technical aspects of HIV/AIDS programs are presented, but there is a strong emphasis on broader programmatic issues and staff members from nonmedical backgrounds will also find the course beneficial. The course aims to deepen individual understanding of the complexities of HIV/AIDS and to equip participants with knowledge and skills to improve HIV/AIDS program design and implementation. A further important aim is the encouragement of positive attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS.

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 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 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 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.

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 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).

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.