| Description | To support the upgrading of midwifery skills so that countries can respond to this situation by strengthening maternal and newborn health services, a set of midwifery training modules was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The modules, while primarily intended for in-service training programmes for midwives and nurse-midwives, can also be used in basic and post-basic midwifery programmes. In addition, the modules can be used to update the midwifery skills of other health care professionals. This module begins with the Story of Mrs X which shows how certain social, economic and cultural factors, combined with delays in seeking and obtaining medical care put mothers at risk of complications which frequently lead to death. The theme from the story is then reinforced throughout the remainder of the module. Special emphasis is given to the role of midwives in promoting safe motherhood in the community by helping individuals, families and other community members understand and contribute to safe motherhood.There are sessions covering specific topics such as the place and value of women in society; advancing safe motherhood through human rights; traditional beliefs, practices and taboos affecting the health of women during pregnancy and childbirth; the recognition and reduction of risk factors; the concept of delay as it relates to maternal death; and HIV/AIDS and safe motherhood. Additional sessions include the use of community profiling for planning community-based care and for evaluation of that care. |
| Tag | manual, English, WHO, module, learning module, teaching module, safe motherhood, human rights, beliefs, traditions, taboos, referral, delay, delays, HIV/AIDS, community profiling, community-based maternity care, maternal death, pregnancy complications, midwife, midwives, midwifery care, skilled birth attendant (SBA), postnatal period, prolonged, obstructed labor, labour, postpartum haemorrhage, hemorrhage, active management of the third stage of labor (AMTSL), bimanual compression of the uterus, perineal tears, manual compression of the aorta, episiotomy, suturing, cervical, suturing, blood transfusion, universal precautions, infection, urinary catheterization, partograph, vacuum extraction, intravenous infusion, drugs, puerperal sepsis, vaginal swab, vulval hygiene, thromboembolic disorder, eclampsia, pre-eclampsia, unwanted pregnancy, unintended pregnancy, abortion, incomplete abortion, maternal mortality, emergency abortion care, manual vacuum aspiration, family planning |
