SAFE MOTHERHOOD RESOURCE LIST

Abortion: A tabulation of available data on the frequency and mortality of unsafe abortion. WHO/FHE/MSM/93.13

Antenatal care and maternal health: How effective is it? A review of the evidence. WHO/MSM/92.4. Available in English and French. Sw fr 15; in developing countries Sw fr 10.50.

Coverage of maternity care: A tabulation of available information (third edition). WHO/FHE/MSM/93.7.

Detecting pre-eclampsia: A practical guide - Using and maintaining blood pressure equipment. WHO/MCH/MSM/92.3.

Essential elements of obstetric care at first referral level. WHO 1991. ISBN 92 4 1544244. Sw fr 14 or US$ 12.60; in developing countries US$ 9.80. Order number 1150364. Available in English. French and Spanish in preparation.

Guidelines for introducing simple delivery kits at the community level. MCH/87.4. Available in English. French and Arabic in preparation.

Human resource development for maternal health and safe motherhood: Report of a Task Force Meeting, April 1990. WHO/HRD/90.1.

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: Report of the WHO/MCH Interregional Collaborative Study, February 1991. WHO/MCH/91.4.

Maternal and perinatal infections: Report of a WHO Consultation. WHO/MCH/91.10.

Maternal mortality: A global factbook. Carla AbouZahr and Erica Royston. ISBN 92 4 159001 7 Sw fr 50; in developing countries Sw fr 35.

Maternal mortality: Ratios and rates - A tabulation of available information (third edition). WHO/MCH/MSM/91.6. This edition includes WHO’S regional estimates.

Measuring reproductive morbidity: Report of a technical working group, August 1989. WHO/MCH/90.4.

Midwifery education: Action for Safe Motherhood - Report of a collaborative pre-congress workshop, Kobe, Japan, October 1990. WHO/UNICEF/International Confederation of Midwives (ICM). WHO/MCH/91.3.

New estimates of maternal mortality. Reprint from WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record. No. 47,1991, pp 345-348.

Obstetric and contraceptive surgery at the district hospital: A practical guide. WHO/MCH/MSM/92.8. Available in English. French in preparation.

Obstetric Fistulae: A review of available information. WHO/MCH/MSM/91.5. Available in English and French.

Preventing maternal deaths. Edited by Erica Royston and Sue Armstrong, WHO 1989. ISBN 92 4 1542497. Price Sw fr 11; in developing countries Sw fr 7.70. Available in English and French. Spanish in preparation.

Social and cultural issues in human resources development for maternal health and safe motherhood: Report of a working group meeting, Stockholm, 30-31 May 1991. WHO/MCH/MSM/91.4.

Studying maternal mortality in developing countries: Rates and causes: A guidebook. WHO/FHE/87.7. Available in English, French and Spanish.

Home-based maternal records: Guidelines for development, adaptation, and evaluation. WHO 1994 ISBN 92 4 154464 3 Sw fr 20; in developing countries Sw fr 14. Available in English and French.

The prevention and management of postpartum haemorrhage: Report of a technical working group, July 1989. WHO/MCH/90.7.

The prevention and treatment of obstetric fistulae: Report of a technical working group, April 1989. WHO/FHE/89.5.

The risks to women of pregnancy and childbearing in adolescence: A selected annotated bibliography. 1989. WHO/MCH/89.5.

The role of women’s organizations in primary health care with special reference to maternal and child health including family planning. WHO/FHE/WHD/88.1

Women’s Groups, NGOs and Safe Motherhood. WHO/FHE/MSM/92.3

Women’s health and safe motherhood: The role of the obstetrician and gynaecologist - Report of a WHO/FIGO workshop prior to the FIGO congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1989. WHO/MCH/89.3.

Women’s health and the midwife: A global perspective - Report of a WHO/UNICEF/International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) workshop prior to ICM congress in The Hague, The Netherlands in August 1987. WHO/MCH/87.5.