Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR), or any form of maternal
and/or perinatal death review or audit, aims to improve health services and pre-empt future …

Abstract Background Community health workers (CHWs) can play a critical role in primary
healthcare and are seen widely as important to achieving the health-related Sustainable …

WHO Implementation Tools for Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response
Page 1 Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response: Materials to Support …

District-level initiatives to improve maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) generally do
not take governance as their primary lens on health system strengthening. This paper is a …

Research is needed to understand why some countries succeed in greater improvements in
maternal, late foetal and newborn health (MNH) and reducing mortality than others …

Organisations spanning social services, public health and healthcare have increasingly
experimented with collaboration as a tool for improving population health and reducing …

Despite global progress in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality and stillbirths, much
work remains to be done to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Reports indicate …

Introduction Most efforts to assess maternal health indicator validity focus on measures of
service coverage. Fewer measures focus on the upstream enabling environment, and such …

Background Gender equality remains an outstanding global priority, more than 25 years
after the landmark Beijing Platform for Action. The disconnect between global health policy …

Introduction Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) is an
intervention process that uses a continuous cycle of identification, notification and review of …