Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to maternal and perinatal health / Julia Hussein, Ann K. Blanc, France Donnay and Affette McCaw-Binns
  • The millennium development goals / Affette McCaw-Binns and Julia Hussein
  • The politics of progress : the story of maternal mortality / Wendy J. Graham
  • The epidemiology of maternal mortality / Cynthia Stanton and Affette McCaw-Binns
  • The epidemiology of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths / Cynthia Stanton and Joy E. Lawn
  • Health systems / Dileep V. Mavalankar and Parvathy Sankara Raman
  • Financing maternity care / Sophie Witter and Tim Ensor
  • Implementing clinical interventions within maternal health programmes / Ana Langer, Hannah Knight, Annabel Charnock, Mary Nell Wegner and José Villar
  • Medical conditions in pregnancy : preventing and managing indirect obstetric morbidity / Roger Webber, Affette McCaw-Binns, and Julia Hussein
  • Improving the availability of services / Ann Phoya, Dileep V. Mavalankar, Parvathy Sankara Raman and Julia Hussein
  • Geographical access, transport, and referral systems / Stephen P. Munjanja, Tsitsi Magure, and Gwendoline Kandawasvika
  • Demand for maternity care : beliefs, behaviour, and social access / Zubia Mumtaz and Adrienne Levay
  • Empowering the community : BRAC's approach in Bangladesh / Kaosar Afsana
  • Quality of care / Endang Achadi, Emma Pitchforth, and Julia Hussein
  • Monitoring and evaluation / Sennen Hounton, David Newlands, Nicolas Meda and Julia Hussein
  • Addressing maternal health in emergency settings / Linda Bartlett, Lain Aitken, Jeffrey Michael Smith, Lisa J. Thomas, Heather E. Rosen, Hannah Tappis and Gilbert Burnham.