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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.
- WHO recommendations Intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience
By outlining a new model of intrapartum care that is...
- Meeting women’s emotional, psychological and clinical needs during ...
Optimal Intrapartum Care, a special supplement edited by...
- WHO recommendations Intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience
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.
29 wrz 2023 · This guideline covers the care of women and their babies during labour and immediately after birth. It focuses on women who give birth between 37 and 42 weeks of pregnancy (‘term’). The guideline helps women to make informed choices about where to have their baby and about their care in labour.
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
20 sie 2020 · Optimal Intrapartum Care, a special supplement edited by staff at the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research including HRP, presents some of the challenges emerging from the global shift towards facility-based childbirth over the last two decades.
Postnatal care services are a fundamental component of the continuum of maternal, newborn and child care, and key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on reproductive, maternal and child health,