TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maine, Deborah
ED  - World Health Organization.
ED  - Reproductive Health and Research.
TI  - Monitoring emergency obstetric care : a handbook
SN  - 9241547731
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Geneva, Switzerland
PB  - Dept. of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization
KW  - Obstetrics
N1  - The handbook is based on the publication Guidelines for monitoring the availability and use of obstetric services (1997) prepared by Deborah Maine ... [et al.]; Also issued online; Guidelines for monitoring the availability and use of obstetric services; Introduction -- Indicators for EmOC -- Collecting data for the indicators
N2  - Remote; Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-59); The emergency obstetric care indicators described in this handbook can be used to measure progress in a programmatic continuum: from the availability of and access to emergency obstetric care to the use and quality of those services. This handbook is an update of an earlier publication on monitoring the availability and use of obstetric services, issued by UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA in 1997. This revision incorporates changes based on monitoring and assessment conducted worldwide and the emerging evidence on the topic over the years, and has been agreed by an international panel of experts. It includes two new indicators and an additional signal function, with updated evidence and new resources.--Publisher's description
UR  - http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241547734%5Feng.pdf
ER  -