Maternal Health: Publications

Source: MDI

USAID Publications

• Report to Congress: Working Toward the Goal of Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality: USAID Programming and Response to FY08 Appropriations
  This report is produced by USAID and provides details on maternal and child programs in 30 priority countries, as well as FY08 funding levels.
  
  
• Immunization Essentials: A Practical Field Guide
  Available in English, French, and Spanish, this publication is produced by USAID and provides technically and operationally sound information for immunization program managers in developing countries and for people who support them, particularly field staff of donor agencies.
  
  
• A Story to Tell: Better Health in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) [PDF, 5MB]
  This report reviews some of the major improvements in health status and health trends in USAID-assisted countries in the LAC region.
  
  
• Report to Congress: Child Survival and Health Programs Fund Progress Report – FY 2007 [PDF, 14MB] FY 2004 Report [PDF, 7.3MB]
  This report describes USAID's strategic approaches, interventions and achievements in health that were reported during 2007.
  
  
• Report to Congress: Health-Related Research and Development Activities at USAID - September 2008 [PDF, 1.2MB] June 2006 Report [PDF, 881KB]
  In 2006, USAID outlined its five-year health research strategy. With this report, USAID provides an update on this strategy for using research funds to stimulate the development and introduction of key products through 2010.

USAID Technical Briefs

• Birth Spacing: 2004 Evidence Supports 3+ Years
  
  
• Family Planning for Postpartum Women: Seizing a Missed Opportunity
  
  
• Maternal and Neonatal Health Programs
  
  
• Newborn Health and Survival: A Call to Action [PDF, 655KB]
  
  
• Obstetric Fistula
  
  
• Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage: Managing the Third Stage of Labor [PDF, 75KB]
  
  
• Promoting Safe Motherhood through Midwifery Training and Advocacy [PDF, 4.3MB]
  Maternal and Neonatal Technical Update No.1, POLICY Project
  
  
• Overcoming Operational Policy Barries to Essential Safe Motherhood [PDF, 734KB]
  Maternal and Neonatal Technical Update No.2, POLICY Project
  
  
• The Role of Family Planning in Promoting Safe Motherhood [PDF, 1.6MB]
  Maternal and Neonatal Technical Update No.3, POLICY Project
  
  
• Saving Women's Lives: Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage

Maternal Health Partner Publications

• Access to Clinical and Community Maternal, Neonatal and Women's Health Services (ACCESS) Publications
  


• BASICS II Publications
  
  
• IMMPACT Publications
  
  
• Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs Publications
  
  
• POLICY Project Publications
  
  
• Save the Children Saving Newborn Lives Publications
  
  
• The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)
  
  
• White Ribbon Alliance Publications
  
  
• WHO Maternal and Newborn Health Publications
  • The World Health Report 2005: Make Every Mother and Child Count
  • The World Health Report 2006: Working Together for Health
  • Beyond the Numbers: Reviewing Maternal Deaths and Complications to Make Pregnancy Safer [PDF, 2.5MB]
  • WHO Systematic Review of Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: The Prevalence of Severe Acute Maternal Morbidity (Near Miss) [PDF, 244KB]

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Other Maternal and Neonatal Health Publications

• Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of Improving Maternal Health: Determinants, Interventions and Challenges [PDF, 1.5MB]
  
  
• Bridging the Equity Gap in Maternal and Child Health (requires subscription for full-text)
  
  
• Caesarean Delivery Rates and Pregnancy Outcomes: The 2005 WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America
  
  
• Caesarean Section and Subsequent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
  
• Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Strategies for Maternal and Neonatal Health in Developing Countries [PDF, 146KB]
  
  
• Current Strategies for Reduction of Maternal Mortality
  
  
• Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)
  
  
• Effective Financing of Maternal Health Services: A review of the Literature
  
  
• Equity in Use of Home-Based or Facility-Based Skilled Obstetric Care in Rural Bangladesh: An Observational Study
  
  
• Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors
  
  
• Health Systems Factors Influencing Maternal Health Services: A Four-Country Comparison
  
  
• Impact of Organizational Change on the Delivery of Reproductive Services: A Review of the Literature
  
  
• Reliability of Data on Caesarean Sections in Developing Countries
  
  
• State of the World's Mothers 2006 [PDF, 1.7MB]
  
  
• WHO Analysis of Causes of Maternal Death: A Systematic Review
  
  
• Who's Got the Power? Transforming Health Systems for Women and Children