TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bailey,Patsy
AU  - Lobis,Samantha
AU  - Fortney,Judith
AU  - Maine,Deborah
TI  - Monitoring emergency obstetric care: a handbook
SN  - 9789241547734 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Geneva, Switzerland
PB  - World Health Organization
KW  - Obstetrical emergencies
KW  - Emergency medical services
KW  - Maternal health services
KW  - Health services accessibility
KW  - Health status indicators
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Data Collection
KW  - Emergency Service, Hospital
KW  - Maternal Health Services
KW  - Maternal Mortality
KW  - Obstetrics
KW  - Quality Indicators, Health Care
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-59)
N2  - his handbook is an update of an earlier publication on monitoring the availability and use of obstetric services, issued by UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA in 1997. The indicators defined within the publication have been used by ministries of health, international agencies and programme managers in over 50 countries around the world. This revision incorporates changes based on monitoring and assessment conducted worldwide and the emerging evidence on the topic over the years, and has been agreed by an international panel of experts. It includes two new indicators and an additional signal function, with updated evidence and new resources.
This handbook aims to describe the indicators and to give guidance on conducting studies to people working in the field. It includes a list of life-saving services, or 'signal functions', that define a health facility with regard to its capacity to treat obstetric emergencies. The emphasis is on actual rather than theoretical functioning. The emergency obstetric care indicators described in this handbook can be used to measure progress in a programmatic continuum: from the availability of and access to emergency obstetric care to the use and quality of those services
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