This paper complements the other papers in the Lancet Series on midwifery by documenting
the experience of low-income and middle-income countries that deployed midwives as one …

The local‐level impacts of decentralizing national health systems are significant yet
infrequently examined. This review aims to assess whether localized health services …

Objective To understand why skilled birth attendance—an acknowledged strategy for
reducing maternal deaths—has been effective in some settings but is failing in Pakistan and …

The Government of Indonesia launched the village-based midwife programme in 1989 in
response to maternal mortality of over 400 per 100 000 livebirths and neonatal mortality of …

Objective To determine the association between reductions in government healthcare
spending (GHS) on maternal mortality in 24 countries in the European Union (EU) over a 30 …

Maternal mortality in developing countries is characterised by disadvantage and exclusion.
Women who die whilst pregnant are typically poor and live in low-income and rural settings …

Introduction Over the past four decades, the Indonesian health care system has greatly
expanded and the health of Indonesian people has improved although the rich-poor gap in …

Maternal mortality persists in low-income settings despite preventability with skilled birth
attendance and emergency obstetric care. Poor access limits the effectiveness of life-saving …

Since the early 1990s Indonesia has attempted to increase the level of skilled attendance at
birth by placing rural midwives in every village in an effort to reduce persistently high levels …

Working Paper Page 1 Compass: Women’s and Children’s Health Knowledge Hub BRIEFING
PAPER Reaching emergency obstetric care: overcoming the ‘second delay’ PREPARED BY Dr …