Obstetrics, gynecology, andrology, sexual and reproductive health

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Africa

• WHO African Region
  • A Pocket Guide for Clinical Management of Obstetric and Neonatal Emergencies in Africa [2022]
  • Maternal Health

Australia

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Mothers & babies

• Better Safer Care
  • Maternity ehandbook

• Queensland Clinical Guidelines
  • Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines

Cambodia

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Assessing maternal and newborn hospital data in Cambodia [2018]

Canada

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Interdisciplinary Care Approach for Perinatal Patients in Acute Care Settings: Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2019]

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Guidelines & Standards

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care: National Guidelines [2017]
  • Perinatal Health Indicators 2013: a Surveillance Report by the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Perinatal Surveillance System [2015]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Investigation and Management of Non-immune Fetal Hydrops [2018]
  • Delayed Child-Bearing [2017]

Denmark

• BMJ Open
  • Obstetric and non-obstetric surgery during pregnancy: A 20-year Danish population-based prevalence study [2019]

Eastern Mediterranean

• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Summary report on the Third annual intercountry meeting of maternal and child health programme managers in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Amman, Jordan 11–14 September 2017 [2017]

Europe

• Euro-Peristat
  • Linking databases on perinatal health: a review of the literature and current practices in Europe [2016]

• WHO European Region
  • Mental health: fact sheet on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): health targets [2018]
  • Maternal and newborn health EURO

France

• Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction
  • Results of the 2021 French National Perinatal Survey and trends in perinatal health in metropolitan France since 1995 [2022]

Germany

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • The Treatment of Illnesses Arising in Pregnancy [2017]

• Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
  • Analysis of the German Perinatal Survey of the Years 2007–2011 and Comparison with Data From 1995–1997: Maternal Characteristics [2013]

Guinea-Bissau

• World Bank
  • Guinea Bissau : Qualitative Assessment of Demand Side Constraints to Access Maternal and Child Health Services [2019]

India

• Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology
  • Oral health knowledge and awareness among pregnant women in India: A systematic review [2015]

Indonesia

• Nutrients
  • Predictors of Poor Neonatal Outcomes among Pregnant Women in Indonesia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]

International

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
  • Pregnancy outcomes at maternal age over 45 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Indicators for monitoring maternal and neonatal quality care: a systematic review [2019]
  • eRegistries: indicators for the WHO Essential Interventions for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health [2016]
  • eRegistries: governance for electronic maternal and child health registries [2016]
  • eRegistries: Electronic registries for maternal and child health [2016]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Developing and applying a 'living guidelines' approach to WHO recommendations on maternal and perinatal health [2019]
  • Mapping the landscape of global programmes to evaluate health interventions in pregnancy: the need for harmonised approaches, standards and tools [2018]

• Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Essential obstetric and newborn care [2019]

• PLoS ONE
  • “What gets measured better gets done better”: The landscape of validation of global maternal and newborn health indicators through key informant interviews [2019]
  • Measures matter: A scoping review of maternal and newborn indicators [2018]

• United Nations Population Fund
  • Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2020 [2021]

Kosovo

• Implementation Science
  • Determinants of implementation of maternal health guidelines in Kosovo: mixed methods study [2013]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Report on Indigenous Women’s Maternal Health in Latin America and the Caribbean. Summary [2023]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Global Health
  • Are the poorest poor being left behind? Estimating global inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health [2020]

• Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Low- and middle-income countries face many common barriers to implementation of maternal health evidence products [2016]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Use of a participatory quality assessment and improvement tool for maternal and neonatal hospital care. Part 2: Review of the results of quality cycles and of factors influencing change [2020]
  • Use of a participatory quality assessment and improvement tool for maternal and neonatal hospital care. Part 1: Review of implementation features and observed quality gaps in 25 countries [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Assessing the Effect of mHealth Interventions in Improving Maternal and Neonatal Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2016]

• Social Science & Medicine
  • Changes in the health systems and policy environment for maternal and newborn health, 2008-2018: An analysis of data from 78 low-income and middle-income countries [2023]

Low-income countries

• PLoS ONE
  • Barriers, Facilitators and Priorities for Implementation of WHO Maternal and Perinatal Health Guidelines in Four Lower-Income Countries: A GREAT Network Research Activity [2016]

Mauritius

• WHO African Region
  • Mauritius Maternal and Child Health Handbook [2021]

Netherlands

• Midwifery
  • Trends in perinatal outcomes of women with chronic medical conditions: A 10-year population-based study in the Netherlands [2023]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Maternity Tables 2013 [2015]
  • Report on Maternity - series

Nigeria

• Health Promotion Perspectives
  • Promoting evidence informed policy making in Nigeria: a review of the maternal, newborn and child health policy development process [2017]
  • An assessment of maternal, newborn and child health implementation studies in Nigeria: implications for evidence informed policymaking and practice [2016]

Norway

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Adverse events reporting by obstetric units in Norway as part of their quality assurance and patient safety work: an analysis of practice [2021]

PAHO

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Maternal Health

Philippines

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Guidelines and training for maternal and newborn care post-Haiyan [2015]

Republic of Korea

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • Social Inequality in Birth Outcomes in Korea, 1995-2008 [2013]

South-East Asia

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Improving the quality of care for mothers, newborns and children in health facilities: learner manual. Version 3 [2020]
  • Improving the quality of care for mothers, newborns and children in health facilities: facilitator manual. Version 3 [2020]

Sri Lanka

• Ministry of Health Sri Lanka
  • National Guideline for Maternal Care - Volume III [2015]
  • National Guideline for Maternal Care - Volume II [2015]
  • National Guideline for Maternal Care - Volume I [2013]
  • Maternal Care Package - A Guide to Field Healthcare Workers [2011]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMJ Global Health
  • Large and persistent subnational inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health intervention coverage in sub-Saharan Africa [2020]

• Implementation Science
  • How to know what you need to do': a cross-country comparison of maternal health guidelines in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania [2012]

Suriname

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Bottom-up development of national obstetric guidelines in middle-income country Suriname [2019]

Uganda

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Trends in inequality in maternal and child health and health care in Uganda: Analysis of the Uganda demographic and health surveys [2023]

United Kingdom

• Healthcare Improvement Scotland
  • Pregnancy and newborn screening standards [2019]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Pregnancy

• NHS England
  • Care of women who are pregnant and post-natal in detained settings service specification [2022]

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Child and maternal health statistics
  • Child and Maternal Health

• Public Health Scotland
  • Births in Scotland

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Pregnancy at Age 35 Years or Older [2022]
  • Nonobstetric Surgery During Pregnancy [2019]
  • Oral Health Care During Pregnancy and Through the Lifespan [2013]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
  • Pregnancy
  • CDC Levels of Care Assessment Tool (CDC LOCATe)
  • Births and Natality

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Temporal Trends in Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Birthing Individuals Aged 15 to 44 Years in the United States, 2007 to 2019 [2022]

• Journal of Women's Health
  • Implementing CDC’s Level of Care Assessment Tool (LOCATe): A National Collaboration to Improve Maternal and Child Health [2018]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Placental origins of adverse pregnancy outcomes: potential molecular targets: an Executive Workshop Summary of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [2016]

• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • SMFM Consult Series #46: Evaluation and management of polyhydramnios [2018]
  • Quality measures in high-risk pregnancies: Executive Summary of a Cooperative Workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2017]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Clinical Guideline #7: nonimmune hydrops fetalis [2015]

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Management of Pregnancy [2018]

Western Pacific

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Maternal health in Western Pacific

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Strengthening implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health: a guide for country programme managers [2022]
  • Improving the quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health: implementation guide for national, district and facility levels [2022]
  • Five functions to improve quality of care for maternal newborn and child health [2021]
  • Integrating stakeholder and community engagement in quality of care initiatives for maternal, newborn and child health [2020]
  • Quality of care for Maternal and Newborn- a monitoring framework for network countries [2019]
  • Quality, equity, dignity: the network to improve quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health – strategic objectives [2018]
  • Defining competent maternal and newborn health professionals: background document to the 2018 joint statement by WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, ICM, ICN, FIGO and IPA: definition of skilled health personnel providing care during childbirth [2018]
  • Working with individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health: a toolkit for implementation [2017]
  • WHO recommendations on maternal health: guidelines approved by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee [2017]
  • WHO recommendations on health promotion interventions for maternal and newborn health 2015 [2015]
  • Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care [2015]
  • Consultation on improving measurement of the quality of maternal, newborn and child care in health facilities [2014]
  • Counselling for maternal and newborn health care [2013]
  • Monitoring maternal, newborn and child health : understanding key progress indicators [2011]
  • WHO recommended interventions for improving maternal and newborn health : integrated management of pregnancy and childbirth [2009]
  • Education material for teachers of midwifery : midwifery education modules [2008]
  • The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (Quality of Care Network)
  • Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results (MoNITOR)
  • Maternal health

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  • Multiple pregnancy
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