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

Pan American Health Organization
- Recommendations for the management of major obstetric emergencies [2024]
- Maternal Health

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- National Perinatal Data Collection data availability resource
- Mothers & babies

Better Safer Care
- Maternity ehandbook

Queensland Health
- Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines

SA Health
- Perinatal Practice Guidelines

Australia, New Zealand

Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
- Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) 2023 Annual Congress "Laneways to Better Perinatal Outcomes", 5-8 March 2023, Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, Victoria [2023]
- Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) 2022 Annual Congress, "Better Together: Collaborative Care, Research and Guidelines", 15-18 May 2022, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia [2022]

BMJ Open
- Eight years into the horizon of aspirational maternal and newborn health pledges: a nationwide cross-sectional exploration of the Burundian EmONC network capacity and budget deficits [2024]

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

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]

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

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

Scientific Reports
- Trends in maternal and child health in China and its urban and rural areas from 1991 to 2020: a joinpoint regression model [2024]

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

Euro-Peristat
- Developing and testing a protocol using a common data model for federated collection and analysis of national perinatal health indicators in Europe [2023]
- Linking databases on perinatal health: a review of the literature and current practices in Europe [2016]
- National Perinatal Health Reports

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

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]

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]

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

Journal of Global Health
- High-risk pregnancy in India: Prevalence and contributing risk factors - a national survey-based analysis [2023]

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

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

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
- The Maternal Health and Newborn Thematic Fund 2022 Annual report [2024]
- Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2023 [2024]

Ireland's Health Services
- National Training Standards for Obstetric Emergencies, Fetal Monitoring, & Neonatal Resuscitation [2024]

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

BMC Medicine
- Impact of mHealth interventions on maternal, newborn, and child health from conception to 24 months postpartum in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2024]

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]

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

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

BMJ Global Health
- Aspirations and realities of intergovernmental collaboration in national- level interventions: insights from maternal, neonatal and child health policy processes in Nigeria, 2009-2019 [2023]

BMJ Open
- Scoping review of maternal and newborn health interventions and programmes in Nigeria [2022]

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]

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]

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]

Sub-Saharan Africa

BMC Pediatrics
- Association between pregnancy intention and completion of newborn and infant continuum of care in Sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

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]

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

Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
- Core Outcome Sets (COS) related to pregnancy and childbirth: a systematic review [2021]

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]

Ministry of Health Uganda
- Essential Maternal and Newborn Clinical Protocols [2022]
- Essential Maternal and Newborn Clinical Care Guidelines for Uganda [2022]

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]
- Maternal intravenous immunoglobulin for the prevention of allo-immune fetal and neonatal haemochromatosis [2019]
- Endocrine disorders in pregnancy guideline [2018]

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

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
- Births and Natality

JAMA
- Associations of Unintended Pregnancy With Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2022]

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]

Scientific Reports
- Burden of maternal and fetal outcomes among pregnant cancer survivors during delivery hospitalizations in the United States [2022]

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 [2023]

World Health Organization
- Integrating services for maternal, newborn and child health and noncommunicable diseases at district- level facilities: Viet Nam country perspective [2024]

World Health Organization
- WHO recommendations on maternal health: guidelines approved by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee, second edition [2025]
- Roadmap for research on maternal and perinatal health in the context of epidemic threats [2024]
- 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

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

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]

WHO South-East Asia Region

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]

WHO Western Pacific Region

WHO Western Pacific Region
- Maternal health

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- Trauma in pregnancy
- Thyroid diseases in pregnancy
- Substance use in pregnancy, neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Stillbirth, perinatal mortality, neonatal mortality
- Smoking in pregnancy
- Skin diseases in pregnancy
- Rh isoimmunization, blood group incompatibility
- Respiratory tract diseases, hypersensitivity in pregnancy
- Prolonged pregnancy
- Prenatal screening and diagnosis
- Prenatal nutrition, dietary supplements in pregnancy
- Pregnancy tests
- Preeclampsia, eclampsia, hypertension in pregnancy
- Preconception care
- Obesity in pregnancy, gestational weight gain
- Neurologic and mental disorders in pregnancy
- Neural tube defects, folic acid
- Neonatology
- Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, hyperemesis gravidarum
- Musculoskeletal diseases in pregnancy
- Multiple pregnancy
- Medications in pregnancy
- Maternity services
- Maternal mortality and morbidity
- Maternal and neonatal infections
- Labor, delivery, postpartum
- Kidney diseases in pregnancy
- Hematologic diseases in pregnancy, anemia in pregnancy
- Gestational diabetes
- Fetal therapy
- Fetal maturation, antenatal corticosteroids
- Fetal growth restriction
- Fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol in pregnancy
- Exercise and physical activity in pregnancy
- Environmental exposures in pregnancy
- Embolism and thrombosis in pregnancy
- Digestive system diseases in pregnancy
- Diabetes in pregnancy, pregnancy in diabetics, pre-existing diabetes
- Cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy
- Breast cancer and pregnancy
- Bleeding in pregnancy, placenta diseases
- Autoimmune diseases in pregnancy
- Antenatal care
- Adolescent pregnancy