Course: Improving the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents: from Evidence to Action

We have now reached the end of Week 4. We have learnt that neonatal deaths and stillbirths total almost 5 million each year. There is great potential for change in …

Most people are aware that child mortality in many parts of the world is much higher than it should be. But how big is the problem? Which parts of the …

The highly regarded animated film ‘Why Did Mrs X Die? Retold’ tells the story of a global, ‘universal’ woman’s journey through childhood, adolescence, pregnancy and delivery and highlights the reasons …

In this step we’ll outline and describe some of the terminology used throughout this week and this is important as there are myths and misunderstandings Defining newborns and stillbirths A …

With increases in the numbers of facility births during the MDG era, there is a need to draw more attention to quality of care. In this and the following step, …

In the video, Clara Calvert discusses the progress made over the MDG period and how we have seen dramatic reductions in maternal mortality (MDG 5A). However, MDG 5B, universal access …

In this step we will examine the rapid progress made in relation to family planning outcomes in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa with a …

In 2010, the United Nations launched Every Woman Every Child as a global movement to mobilise and intensify action to address major health challenges facing women and children around the …

In previous steps we have described the burden of maternal deaths around the world and what can be done to prevent these deaths and complications. We will now look at …

In almost all countries access to safe induced abortion is restricted by law. Underlying this is the complex link between access to safe abortion and the first principle of human …

What are the challenges experienced in delivering family planning programmes? Here, Joan Summers, International Programme Support Director at Marie Stopes International, explains some of these challenges and provides further detail …

In the previous step we saw that many women do not access maternal health services when they need them, whether the pregnancy is complicated or uncomplicated. Here we consider some …