WHO is supporting countries to deliver integrated, evidence-based and cost-effective care for mothers and babies during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. Investing in health systems – especially in training midwives and in making emergency obstetric care available round-the-clock – is key to reducing maternal mortality.

WHO fact sheet on maternal mortality with key facts and providing information on MDG 4, where deaths occur, causes, lack of care and WHO response.

Maternal morbidity and mortality refer to health problems or deaths, respectively, of women that occur as a result of pregnancy or childbirth.

NICHD provides the following answers to common training-related questions to help potential trainees navigate through the application process. Please note that these answers are specific to the NICHD's procedures and activities.For more general answers, visit the NIH Research Training and Career Development website. If, after looking through the FAQs, you still have questions about extramural ...

This guideline aims to improve the quality of essential, routine postnatal care for women and newborns with the ultimate goal of improving maternal and newborn health and well-being.

The Maternal Health Unit (MAH) provides leadership for improving maternal and perinatal health and well-being and ending preventable maternal mortality. MAH generates programmatic-focused evidence, develops guidelines, norms and standards, and supports regions and countries in adaptation, implementation and monitoring of person-centered quality and respectful maternal and perinatal care ...

Recorded or estimated number of maternal deaths. Measurement requires information on pregnancy status, timing of death (during pregnancy, childbirth, or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy), and cause of death.

Low birth weight infants, i.e., infants with a birth weight less than 2.5 kg constitute approximately 15% of all newborns worldwide but account for 70% of all newborn deaths. Most of these babies are born in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and die within the first days of life. Reducing mortality among these infants is the key to achieving the United ...

Maternity protection is a composite indicator that is included in the Global Nutrition Monitoring Framework; it is currently defined as whether the country has maternity protection laws or regulations in place that are compliant with the provisions for leave duration, remuneration and source of cash benefits in Convention No. 183.

The world has committed to making health for all a reality. Primary health care is one of the best tools we have for achieving that goal. Through the Declaration of Astana, countries have reaffirmed the importance of PHC. We risk, however, that global consensus becoming nothing more than a pipe dream unless countries can turn the four commitments into action on the ground.