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Quality of care for maternal and newborn health: the neglected agenda
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The quality of care received by mothers and babies in developing countries is often reported as poor. Yet efforts to address this contributory factor to maternal and newborn mortality have received less attention compared with barriers of access to care. The current heightened concern to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 has illuminated the neglected quality agenda. Whilst there is no universally‐accepted definition of “quality care”, it is widely acknowledged to embrace multiple levels – from patient to health system, and multiple dimensions, including safety as well as efficiency. Quality care should thus lie at the core of all strategies for accelerating progress towards MDG4 &5. Interventions to measure and improve quality need themselves to be evidence‐based. Two promising approaches are maternal and perinatal death reviews and criterion‐based audit. These and other quality improvement tools have a crucial role to play in the implementation of effective maternal and newborn care.
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Metadata
- Authors
- van den Broek, N., & Graham, W.
- Venue
- BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-09-04
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- s1
- Pages
- 18-21
- ISSN
- 0306-5456 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-0328
- 1471-0528
- OpenAlex
- W1607324854
- Semantic Scholar
- 607b3a8b022d23bb57fd3810c4bee7bb6f12fc8b
- Cited by
- 239
- References
- 37
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- FWCI
- 6.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- LSTM Online Archive (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Maternal and fetal healthcare
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Keywords
- quality of care, maternal health, newborn health, maternal mortality, perinatal mortality, Millennium Development Goals, patient safety, quality improvement, developing countries
- MeSH terms
- Child Health Services, Developing Countries, Female, Health Policy, Humans, Infant Mortality, Infant, Newborn, Maternal Health Services, Maternal Mortality, Pregnancy, Quality of Health Care, Global Health
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