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 ...
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...
Rashida Begum, Anowara Begum, Colin H W Bullough, Richard Johanson
Since the introduction of low dose magnesium sulphate to treat eclamptic patients at Dhaka Medical College, mortality rates have fallen from 16% to 8%. Personal communications from other centres in Bangladesh show similar findings.
Khandoker Saiful Islam, Shahidul Alam Sachchu, Rehana Sandani, Colin H W Bullough et al.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of a theatre based educational initiative on the knowledge and attitudes to eclampsia and its treatment in a rural Bangladeshi village. METHODS: An established theatre company, Theatre Centre for Social Development, performed scenarios regarding eclamptic pregnant wom...
Abdul Latif Bhuiya, Colin H W Bullough
A new policy for emergency obstetric care (EOC) which should be provided at district and sub-district hospitals has been adopted in Bangladesh. Therefore a survey of the obstetric skills of doctors at these institutions was performed. The current skills of the doctors was compared with their self-pe...
K Islam, S. A. Sacchu, Rehana Sandani, Colin H W Bullough et al.