Other Publications
Child Health and Maternal Health: Who's
got the power? Transforming health systems for women and children
UN Millennium Project-Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health, 2005
The central thrust of Who's Got the Power? is that
dramatic, meaningful, sustainable progress toward decreasing child and
maternal mortality requires an intense focus on improving health
systems. The authors highlight that change is possible and they advance
a comprehensive action plan that recommends the rapid and equitable
sale-up of interventions such as integrated management of childhood
illness, the universal provision of emergency obstetric care and sexual
and reproductive health services, and the provision of strengthened
health systems.
Maternal Mortality Update 2006 - UNFPA 2007
Since 1998, the Maternal Mortality Update, a biennial publication of
UNFPA, has documented strategies, partnerships and projects for
reducing maternal mortality and morbidity in the developing world. This
issue focuses on the key staff responsible for maternal health care:
midwives and others with midwifery skills, or MOMS. It was prepared in
collaboration with the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM).
The document consists of two parts: Part One, Investing in MOMS focuses
on midwives and others with midwifery skills: who they are, what they
do and how to scale up professional attendance at all births. This
section draws largely from the discussions and recommendations of two
international meetings held in 2006, in partnership with ICM and WHO:
the New York Workshop on Midwives in March and the Hammamet Forum on
Midwifery in the Community in December. Part Two, Voices from the
Field, is a review, and evaluations where available, of UNFPA
initiatives related to midwives and midwifery in all four regions.
State of the World's Mothers - Save the Children
Reports from 2000 to 2008
