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

What is mHealth? In this step Dr Chris Smith explores its definition and how can mobile technologies be used in the context of healthcare. Since the first commercially available handheld …

Understanding at a population level where women deliver and who assists them helps us to identify the main things needed to ensure that women and newborns with complications receive care, …

What skills, tests, and drugs do we need to reduce maternal mortality? How might we organise services to provide this care, and what other strategies are needed? It’s important to …

A solid understanding of the choices and behaviours of users who select modern contraceptive methods is crucial to ensure universal access to acceptable, affordable and good-quality family planning services. In …

If all women with an unmet need for family planning had access to a modern, effective method of contraception, there would be many potential health benefits to both women and …

Knowing when and why maternal deaths occur is key to development of strategies to reduce maternal mortality. The timing of maternal death is therefore critical, and the video considers potential …

The use of contraception has increased rapidly across the world since the first regulatory approval of the contraceptive pill in the United States in 1960. In this step, Dr Kathryn …

In this step Megan Kill discusses the definitions of maternal mortality and morbidity proposed by the International Classification of Diseases and the World Health Organization. These definitions form the basis …

The problems of maternal mortality and morbidity are large, but things are getting better. What is the true size of maternal death, and who has the highest risk of dying? …

We have now reached the end of Week 2. We have learned that there are an estimated 75 million unintended pregnancies around the world each year, and that meeting unmet …

We’ve seen that Ethiopia has made significant advances in relation to family planning outcomes and that political commitment has been central to this progress. In this interview with Dr Addis …

In this and the following two steps we will examine the rapid progress made in relation to family planning outcomes in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is the second most populous country in …

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 …

Attitudes towards sex, gender, fertility, and family life permeate how contraception and abortion services are and aren’t provided and how well they are received in communities. In the video, Dr …

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 …