CGPH FACULTY: Ndola Prata, Malcolm Potts, Julia Walsh
DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2011
REGION: Global
REFERENCE: Prata N, Passano P, Rowen T, Bell S, Walsh J, Potts M.Where there are (few) skilled birth attendants. J Health Popul Nutr. 2011 Apr;29(2):81-91.
SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Recent efforts to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries have focused primarily on two long-term aims: training and deploying skilled birth attendants and upgrading emergency obstetric care facilities. Given the future population-level benefits, strengthening of health systems makes excellent strategic sense but it does not address the immediate safe-delivery needs of the estimated 45 million women who are likely to deliver at home, without a skilled birth attendant. There are currently 28 countries from four major regions in which fewer than half of all births are attended by skilled birth attendants.
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