Education Education An approach to some basic Indicators for ...
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Catalog of Indica<strong>to</strong>rs Health 91 Name of indica<strong>to</strong>r: Birth deliveries assisted by skilled personnel rate Definition: The proportion of birth deliveries attended by personnel trained <strong>to</strong> give the necessary supervision, care, and advice <strong>to</strong> women during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period, <strong>to</strong> conduct deliveries, and <strong>to</strong> care <strong>for</strong> newborns. Trained health personnel include doc<strong>to</strong>rs (specialists or non-‐specialists), and/or persons with midwifery skills who can manage normal deliveries and diagnose, manage or refer obstetric complications. Description: This indica<strong>to</strong>r is used as a proxy indica<strong>to</strong>r <strong>for</strong> providing a more accurately measure maternal mortality, and <strong>for</strong> moni<strong>to</strong>ring short-‐term trends. Assistance by properly trained health personnel during pregnancy and during delivery can be used <strong>to</strong> measuring assesses and use health care service during pregnancy and delivery. It presents opportunities <strong>for</strong> reaching pregnant women with interventions that may be vital <strong>for</strong> ensuring prevention, detection and management of complication, thus providing them better health and wellbeing and that of infants. Sec<strong>to</strong>r: HealthSubsec<strong>to</strong>r: Reproductive health. Sources: [1] Indica<strong>to</strong>rs of Sustainable Development: Guidelines and Methodologies. United Nation of Economic and Social Affairs. 2007. [2] Indica<strong>to</strong>r Code Book. World Health Statistics -‐ World Health Statistics indica<strong>to</strong>rs. World Health Organization. 2011. [3] Development Indica<strong>to</strong>rs Reference Manual: Concept and Definitions. Asian Development Bank. 2004 [4] Handbook on Reproductive Health Indica<strong>to</strong>r. United Nation. 2003 Unit of measuring: PercentageFormula: BSr = BsB ×100 Formula explained: The proportion can be calculated by dividing the number of births that were attended by skilled professionals in<strong>to</strong> the <strong>to</strong>tal number of births in the same period, and multiplying all it by 100. Formula meaning: Bs%=Proportion of births by skilled health personnel, Bs=Number of births attended by skilled health personnel, and B=Total number of live births.
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