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9. Summing Up: The Way Forward
Pages 293-298

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... Many of the recommended interventions have been undertaken successfully in countries with limited resources, such as Sri Lanka and Cuba. PRIORITIES Reproductive health care priorities vary with mortality rates and local needs for obstetric and neonatal care and the resources that can be mobilized to meet these needs.
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From page 294...
... These four recommendations have the potential to greatly improve birth outcomes and can be implemented now. The challenge for developing countries, given their limited resources and important health care needs, is how to most effectively and widely undertake these interventions.
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From page 295...
... The goal of basic and comprehensive essential obstetric care, and of neonatal care emphasizing the diagnosis and treatment of infection, is the prevention of maternal, neonatal, and fetal death. This is in contrast to routine hospitalization for delivery, which is not affordable in many countries where health care resources are severely limited.
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From page 296...
... These include limited financial and human resources for health care, particularly the lack of trained staff and adequate facilities; poverty, and its accompanying burden of infectious disease and malnutrition; illiteracy; widely dispersed populations; and certain cultural and traditional practices that impede effective care. These limitations must be recognized and reflected in the design and implementation of programs to improve maternal, neonatal, and fetal health.
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Key Terms

  • essential obstetric
  • birth outcomes
  • fetal mortality
  • obstetric care
  • improve birth

  • adverse birth
  • village health
  • skilled birth
  • health workers
  • birth attendant

  • basic essential
  • basic techniques
  • prolonged labor
  • implementing interventions
  • comprehensive essential

  • formal education
  • timely access
  • reduce maternal
  • rural india
  • safe delivery

  • initiate respiration
  • birth attendants
  • reducing maternal
  • health capacity
  • widely undertake

  • readily accessible
  • outcomes enables
  • care priorities
  • complicated deliveries
  • routine hospitalization


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