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Author
(year)
(IV)/(EV)
Mswia (2003)
(+)/(++)
Okaro (2001)
(-)/(-)
Padmanaban
(2009)
(-)/(+)
Target
population
Women in
general
Neonates in
general
Women in
general
Women in
general
Brief intervention description Targeted
outcome(s)
disinfection of equipment
Raising the status of women; increasing the
amount of health education; improving access
to FP and EmOC.
Safe Motherhood Initiative launched in
Nigeria in 1990. Interventions included
workshops for doctors and midwives referring
pregnant women to the University of Nigeria
Teaching Hospital, Enugu; radio and
television campaigns on the need for
pregnant women to seek help early; and
discussion of maternal or foetal deaths within
the obstetrics and gynaecology departments
at the hospital.
Promotion of institutional delivery; improved
antenatal and postpartum care; surveillance
of deaths; reviews of maternal deaths; nearmiss
audit; enhanced skilled care in rural
areas; birth-companion programmes; and
increasing the availability of blood. The state
developed and added innovations to nationallevel
programmes.
Maternal
mortality
Maternal
mortality
Maternal
mortality
Findings summary
Appendix 4.5
In Tanzania, the maternal mortality rates in
1999 were substantially lower than at the start
of surveillance (1992 for rural districts, 1993
for the urban area), although trends during the
period were statistically significant at the 90%
level only in the urban site.
Maternal mortality increased in the teaching
hospital in Enugum Nigeria, following
implementation of the Safe Motherhood
Initiative.
In Tamil Nadu, India, the MMR reduced from
380 per 100,000 births in 1993 to 90 in 2007.
What are the effects of different models of delivery for improving maternal and infant health outcomes for poor people in urban areas in low income
and lower middle income countries?
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