Working With Individuals, Families and Communities to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Guideline Appraisal of WHO Document

Working with Individuals, Families and Communities to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Making Pregnancy Safer initiative

Empowerment of women, men, families and communities: true partners for improving maternal and newborn health.

Based on the Health Promotion approach, the Making Pregnancy Safer initiative has proposed a strategic framework for working with individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health. The aims are to contribute to the empowerment of women, families and communities to increase their influence and control over maternal and newborn health, as well as to increase access to a...

Transforming maternal and newborn health social norms and practices to increase utilization of health services in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative review

BACKGROUND Since 2008, Participatory Action for Rural Development Innovation (PARI) Development Trust, with the support of Enfants du Monde, has been implementing a maternal and newborn health (MNH) program based on the World Health Organization's (WHO) framework for Working with Individuals, Families and Communities (IFC) to improve MNH in Netrokona district, Bangladesh. This program aims to e...

Urbanization and domestic accidents in an Iranian community

Background: Accidents, such as domestic accidents, and the resulting injuries are presently a matter of concern in communities. Some factors such as urbanization cause an increase in the incidence of accidents for recognized and unrecognized reasons. The aim of the present study was to investigate the incidence of domestic accidents among a group of families who had migrated to the determined u...

Unlocking community capabilities for improving maternal and newborn health: participatory action research to improve birth preparedness, health facility access, and newborn care in rural Uganda

BACKGROUND Community capacities and resources must be harnessed to complement supply side initiatives addressing high maternal and neonatal mortality rates in Uganda. This paper reflects on gains, challenges and lessons learnt from working with communities to improve maternal and newborn health in rural Uganda. METHODS A participatory action research project was supported from 2012 to 2015 in...