Educating Skilled Birth Attendants in Mexico: Do the Curricula Meet International Confederation of Midwives Standards?

Increasing access to safe abortion services through auxiliary nurse midwives trained as skilled birth attendants.

BACKGROUND The use of medical abortion methods was approved by Department of Health Services in 2009 and introduced in hospitals and a few primary health centres (PHCs). Access would increase if services were available at health post level and provided by auxiliary nurse midwives trained as skilled birth attendants. Evidence from South Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal and Vietnam show that mid-level h...

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Where There Are (Few) Skilled Birth Attendants

Recent efforts to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries have focused primarily on two long-term aims: training and deploying skilled birth attendants and upgrading emergency obstetric care facilities. Given the future population-level benefits, strengthening of health systems makes excellent strategic sense but it does not address the immediate safe-delivery needs of the estimated 4...

Skilled birth attendants in Mexico: how does care during normal birth by general physicians, obstetric nurses, and professional midwives compare with World Health Organization evidence-based practice guidelines?

INTRODUCTION We evaluated the quality of basic obstetric care provided by Mexican general physicians, obstetric nurses, and professional midwives compared with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for evidence-based practices and national guidelines. METHODS Vaginal births were observed in 5 hospitals in 5 states from June 2006 until July 2007. We created 5 indices based on WHO guidelin...

Factors affecting deliveries attended by skilled birth attendants in Bangladesh

BACKGROUND The presence of skilled birth attendants (SBAs) is crucial in childbirth to reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) and to achieve the maternal mortality target of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim of this study was to investigate the factors related to childbirths attended by SBAs in Bangladesh. METHODS Data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Hea...