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7 lut 2018 · This up-to-date, comprehensive and consolidated guideline on essential intrapartum care brings together new and existing WHO recommendations that, when delivered as a package, will ensure good-quality and evidence-based care irrespective of the setting or level of health care.
17 kwi 2024 · The intrapartum care model endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) has demonstrated effectiveness in enhancing childbirth experiences and increasing maternal satisfaction with the quality of obstetric care. Additionally, it contributes to the reduction of fear associated with labor and childbirth.
10 kwi 2018 · Models of intrapartum care vary considerably across settings. Depending on the healthcare system, intrapartum care service provision can be led by midwives, family doctors, or obstetricians, for example.
Health systems should aim to implement this WHO model of intrapartum care to empower all women to access the type of woman-centred care that they want and need, and to provide a sound foundation for such care, in accordance with a human rights-based approach.
By outlining a new model of intrapartum care that is adaptable to individual country contexts, the guideline enables substantial cost-savings through reduction in unnecessary interventions during labour and childbirth. We encourage health care providers to adopt and adapt these recommendations, which provide a sound
This guideline includes 56 evidence-based recommendations on intrapartum care – 26 new recommendations adopted by the Guideline Development Group (GDG) at the 2017 meetings, and 30 existing recommendations relevant to intrapartum care that were integrated from previously published WHO guidelines.
WHO recommendations: intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience: transforming care of women and babies for improved health and well-being: executive summary. World Health Organization. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/272447 .
