Véronique Filippi, Carine Ronsmans, Oona M. R. Campbell, Wendy Graham et al.
In this paper, we take a broad perspective on maternal health and place it in its wider context. We draw attention to the economic and social vulnerability of pregnant women, and stress the importance of concomitant broader strategies, including poverty reduction and women's empowerment. We also con...
Wendy Graham, Jacqueline Bell, Colin H W Bullough
Summary This paper explores the scientific justification for the key action message “ensure skilled attendance at delivery.” Many governments and other provider agencies in poor countries will need to commit additional health resources in order to respond to this message, and opportunity costs will ...
Yael Velleman, Elizabeth Mason, Wendy Graham, Lenka Beňová et al.
Yael Velleman and colleagues argue for stronger integration between the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and maternal and newborn health sectors. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
Suzanne Cross, Giorgia Gon, Emma Morrison, Kaosar Afsana et al.
Hospital cleaning has been shown to impact on rates of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and good environmental hygiene is critical to quality care, yet those tasked with the role of ensuring a safe and clean environment often go unrecognised as members of the healthcare workforce. Sepsis is ...
Jacqueline Bell, Julia Hussein, Birgit Jentsch, Graham Scotland et al.
BACKGROUND: Increasing the proportion of births with skilled attendance is advocated by international agencies as a key factor in reducing maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. The SAFE Strategy Development Tool is designed to enable policy makers and planners to gather and interpret infor...
Suzanne Cross, Kaosar Afsana, Morsheda Banu, Dileep Mavalankar et al.
BACKGROUND: As the proportion of deliveries in health institutions increases in low- and middle-income countries, so do the challenges of maintaining standards of hygiene and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) in mothers and babies. Adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and...
Emma Pitchforth, Edwin van Teijlingen, Wendy Graham, Ann Fitzmaurice
There are increasing concerns regarding inequities in access to health care, and hence calls for routine data collection to improve monitoring. For many developing countries, such as Bangladesh, increasing the availability and uptake of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) is vital in improving maternal ...
Wendy Graham, Stephanie J. Dancer, I. Gould, William Stones
…it is a disagreeable declaration for me to mention that I myself was the means of carrying the infection to a great number of women. Alexander Gordon, 17951 The 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals is provoking many reflective exercises. This special issue of BJOG on women's...
Graham Hurrell, Martin Collins, Wendy Sykes, Vaughan Williams
Haowei Wang, Kylie E. C. Ainslie, Caroline E. Walters, Oliver Eales et al.
Objectives The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection caused high levels of hospitalisation and deaths in late 2020 and early 2021 during the second wave in England. COVID-19 disease during this period was associated with marked health inequalities across ethnic and sociodemographic subgroups. In this...
Wang, Haowei, Ainslie, Kylie E. C., Walters, Caroline E., Eales, Oliver et al.
Objectives The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection caused high levels of hospitalisation and deaths in late 2020 and early 2021 during the second wave in England. COVID-19 disease during this period was associated with marked health inequalities across ethnic and sociodemographic subgroups. In this...
Kaosar Afsana, Mst. Nasrin Banu, Atiqur Rahman, Taryn Roy et al.
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Oona Campbell and Wendy Graham provide evidence for an optimum strategy of intrapartum care in health centres with midwives operating in teams adding to evidence that countries with a high proportion of births in institutions assisted by skilled attendants (trained qualified and accredited) have low...
J. A. Chandler, John Stewart, J. Mawson, R. A. W. Rhodes et al.
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