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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Safe Motherhood/Postpartum Care

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2008
"Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua: Promoting family planning during the postpartum period can increase contraceptive acceptance," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 74. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Khan, M.E., Mary Philip Sebastian, Rukma Idnani, and Kaushal Kumari. "Promoting postpartum contraception among young low parity women: Some salient findings," FRONTIERS Asia and Near East Research Update no. 14. New Delhi: Population Council.**

PAIMAN News Roundup no. 2. Islamabad: Population Council. (offsite link)

Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns (PAIMAN). "Assessing routine health information system in selected PAIMAN districts by using lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) technique." Islamabad: Population Council. (PDF)

Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns (PAIMAN). "Assessment of knowledge and attitudes of married women on maternal and newborn health (MNH) in selected union councils of project districts." Islamabad: Population Council. (PDF)

Quiterio, Gisela, Maritza Molina, Marija Miric, Ricardo Vernon, and M. Estela Rivero-Fuentes. "Situation analysis of the integration of family planning services in postpartum, postabortion and prevention of mother to child transmission programs in the Dominican Republic," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Rivero-Fuentes, M. Estela, Ricardo Vernon, Michaelle Boulos, and Louis-Marie Boulos. "Situation analysis of the integration of family planning services in postpartum, postabortion and prevention of mother to child transmission programs in Haiti," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Solis, Freddy, Ana del Carmen Rojas, Adilia Gadea, M. Estela Rivero-Fuentes, and Ricardo Vernon. "Situation analysis of the integration of family planning services in postpartum, postabortion and prevention of mother to child transmission programs in Nicaragua," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Warren, Charlotte, Rachel Shongwe, Allen Waligo, Mohammed Mahdi, Goldy Mazia, and Indira Narayanan.  "Repositioning postnatal care in a high HIV environment: Swaziland," Horizons Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

2007
Afridi, Munir, Saman Naz, and Nayyer Munir. "Knowledge, practice, and coverage (KPC) survey: Baseline report, Bagh District." Islamabad: Population Council. (PDF)

Afridi, Munir, Saman Naz, and Nayyer Munir. "Knowledge, practice, and coverage (KPC) survey: Baseline report, Mansehra District." Islamabad: Population Council. (PDF)

Kenya Ministry of Health. "Management of complications, pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period in the presence of FGM/C: A reference manual for health service providers." Nairobi: Division of Reproductive Health, Ministry of Health. (PDF)

Khan, M.E., Mary Philip Sebastian, and Aditi Aeron. "Promoting healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy: Barriers and possible intervention—Observation from a qualitative study in Uttar Pradesh," FRONTIERS Asia and Near East Research Update no. 13. New Delhi: Population Council.**

2006
Abdel-Tawab, Nahla, Hala Youssef, Sarah Loza, Amal Zaki, and Salwa Faraq. "Helping Egyptian women achieve optimal birth spacing intervals through maximizing opportunities in antenatal and postpartum care," FRONTIERS Research Update no. 9. Cairo: Population Council. (requests for this publication may be sent to pcouncil@popcouncil.org)

Arif, Muhammad Shafique, Peter C. Miller, Nayyer Munir, and Irfan Masood. "Safe Motherhood Applied Research and Training (SMART) Report 3: Changes in knowledge and behavior of women and families," Islamabad: Population Council. (PDF)

Birungi, Harriet and W. Onyango-Ouma. "Acceptability and sustainability of the WHO focused antenatal care package in Kenya," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"Low morale found among South African nurses," Population Briefs 12(1): 2. (full text)

Nyarko, Philomena, Harriet Birungi, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Daniel Arhinful, Sylvia Deganus, Henrietta Odoi-Agyarko, and Gladys Brew. "Acceptability and feasibility of introducing the WHO focused antenatal care package in Ghana," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

RamaRao, Saumya, John Townsend, and Ian Askew. "Correlates of inter-birth intervals: Implications of optimal birth spacing strategies in Mozambique,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Rashida, Gul and Peter C. Miller. "Safe Motherhood Applied Research and Training (SMART) Report 1: Project overview," Islamabad: Population Council. (PDF)

Shah, Zakir Hussain and Saima Pervaiz. 2006. "Safe Motherhood Applied Research and Training (SMART) Report 4: Knowledge and behaviour of service providers." Islamabad: Population Council. (PDF)

"South Africa: Antenatal couples counseling is feasible but challenging," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 58. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Wajid, Abdul, Zakir H. Shah, Ashfa Hashmi, Zeba Tasneem, and Lubna Shireen. "Safe Motherhood Applied Research and Training (SMART) Report 2: The interventions," Islamabad: Population Council. (PDF)

2005
Chege, Jane N.
, Ian Askew, Nzwakie Mosery, Mbali Ndube-Nxumalo, Busi Kunene, Mags Beksinska, Janet Dalton, Ester Snyman, Wilem Sturm, and Preshny Moodley. "Feasibility of introducing a comprehensive package of antenatal care services in rural public clinics in South Africa,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"Introducing magnesium sulphate for the management of pregnancy-induced hypertension," Safe Motherhood Policy Alert. Nairobi: Population Council. (PDF)

Keith-Brown, Kimberli. "Investing for life: Making the link between public spending and the reduction of maternal mortality," report. Mexico City: Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación. (PDF)

Osei, Ivy, Bertha Garshong, Gertrude Owusu Banahene, John Gyapong, Placide Tapsoba, Ian Askew, Clement Ahiadeke, Richard Killian, Edward Bonku, Perle Combary, and William Sampson. “Improving the Ghanaian Safe Motherhood Programme: Evaluating the effectiveness of alternative training models and other performance improvement factors on the quality of maternal care and client outcomes,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Penn-Kekana, Loveday, Duane Blaauw, Khin San Tint, Desiree Monareng, and Jane Chege. "Nursing staff dynamics and implications for maternal health provision in public health facilities in the context of HIV/AIDS (in South Africa)," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"Repositioning post partum care in Kenya," Safe Motherhood Policy Alert. Nairobi: Population Council. (PDF)

"The SMNH implementation framework for districts," Safe Motherhood Policy Alert. Nairobi: Population Council. (PDF)

"Taking maternal services to pregnant women: The community midwifery model," Safe Motherhood Policy Alert. Nairobi: Population Council. (PDF)

"Traditional birth attendants in maternal health programmes," Safe Motherhood Policy Alert. Nairobi: Population Council. (PDF)

2004
Chong, Erica, with introduction by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid. "Healing wounds, instilling hope: The Tanzanian partnership against obstetric fistula," Quality/Calidad/Qualité no. 16. New York: Population Council. (PDF) (PDF en français) (PDF in Swahili)

Himelfarb, Elaine C. "Improving health care providers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices in reproductive health in rural Romania,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"India: Men’s involvement in partner’s pregnancy yields health benefits," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 45. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

"Investigating childbirth practices in an Egyptian hospital," Population Council Annual Report 2003. (full text)

Khalil, Karima, Mohamed Cherine, Amr Elnoury, Hania Sholkamy, Miral Breebaart, Nevine Hassanein. "Labor augmentation in an Egyptian teaching hospital," International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 85(1): 75–81.*

Khalil, Karima and Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi. Making Motherhood Safer in Egypt. Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau. (PDF) (PDF in Arabic)

Kunene, Busi, Mags Beksinska, Simphiwe Zondi, Nobuhle Mthembu, Saiqa Mullick, Emma Ottolenghi, Immo Kleinschmidt, Susan Adamchak, Barbara Janowitz, and Carmen Cuthbertson. “Involving men in maternity care: South Africa,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"Men’s involvement in partner’s pregnancy yields health benefits," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 45. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

"Promote awareness of the benefits of women's reproductive health," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 46. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)   

Varkey, Leila Caleb , Anurag Mishra, Anjana Das, Emma Ottolenghi, Dale Huntington, Susan Adamchak, M.E. Khan, Frederick Homan. "Involving men in maternity care in India," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Warren, Charlotte and Wilson Liambila. "Safe Motherhood Demonstration Project, Western Province: Final report." Nairobi: Republic of Kenya Ministry of Health, University of Nairobi, and Population Council. (PDF)

2003
Billings, Deborah L., Eliana del Pozo, and Hugo Arévalo. "Testing a model for the delivery of emergency obstetric care and family planning services in the Bolivian public health system," Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Center for Development in Primary Health Care. "Improving postpartum care among low parity mothers in Palestine," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

León, Federico R., Carlos Brambila, Marisela de la Cruz, John H. Bratt, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Verónica Dávila, Carlo Bonatto, and Alex Ríos. "Effects of IGSS' job aids-assisted balanced counseling algorithms on quality of care and client outcomes," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

León, Federico R., Alex Ríos, Adriana Zumarán, Marisela de la Cruz, Carlos Brambila, and John H. Bratt. "Enhancing quality for clients: The balanced counseling strategy," FRONTIERS Program Brief no. 3. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Miller, Suellen, Nancy L. Sloan, Beverly Winikoff, Ana Langer, and Fariyal F. Fikree. “Where is the ‘E’ in MCH? The need for an evidence-based approach in safe motherhood,” Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health 48(1): 10–18.*

Nawar, Laila, Dale Huntington, Ibrahim Kharboush, Nancy Ali, and Mahmoud Shaheen. "Assessment of pilot health project outcome indicators: West Bank/Gaza," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Palabrica-Costello, Marilou, Nimfa Ogena, and Alejandro N. Herrin. "Policy and program implications of the Matching Grants Program in the Philippines," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Quasem, Iftekhar, Nancy L. Sloan, Anita Chowdhury, Salahuddin Ahmed, Beverly Winikoff, and A.M.R. Chowdhury. "Adaptation of kangaroo mother care for community-based application," Journal of Perinatology 23(8): 646–651. (abstract)

Sholkamy, Hania, Nevine Hassanein, Mohamed Cherine, Amr Elnoury, Miral Breebaart, and Karima Khalil. "An observation checklist for facility-based normal labor and delivery practices: The Galaa study," Monographs in Reproductive Health. Cairo: Population Council. (PDF)

"Traditional birth attendants in maternal health programmes," Safe Motherhood Policy Alert. Nairobi: Population Council. (PDF)

2002
Askew, Ian D. and Ndugga Baker Maggwa. "Integration of STI prevention and  management with family planning and antenatal care in sub-Saharan Africa: What more do we need to know?" International Family Planning Perspectives 28(2): 77–86. (PDF)

"Bridging the safe motherhood knowledge gap," Population Briefs 8(1): 5. (full text)

Das, Anjana, Leila Caleb Varkey, Anurag Mishra, Emma Ottolenghi, and Dale Huntington. "Men in maternity study," FRONTIERS Research Update no. 2. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF)  

Fikree, Fariyal F., Tazeen S. Ali, Mohammad H. Rahbar, and Jill M. Durocher. Postnatal Maternal and Newborn Care: Rituals, Perceived Morbidity, and Care Seeking—A Community-based Study in Karachi, Pakistan. New York and Karachi: Population Council and Aga Khan University.

Fikree, Fariyal F., Syed Iqbal Azam, and Heinz W. Berendes. “Time to focus child survival programmes on the newborn: Assessment of levels and causes of infant mortality in rural Pakistan,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 80(4): 271–276.*

Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP). “Institutional support for a program of activities within the Pilot Health Project in the West Bank and Gaza,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Jacobs, Erika, Carlos Brambila, and Ricardo Vernon. "Reproductive health care in the postnatal period in Guatemala," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Langer, Ana and José Villar. “Promoting evidence based practice in maternal care,” British Medical Journal 324(7343): 928–929.*

Mishra, Anurag, Leila Caleb Varkey, Emma Ottolenghi, Anjana Das, Dale Huntington, and Susan Adamchak. "Men in maternity study: Results from the pre-intervention survey of pregnant women and their husbands at the three intervention, and of only women at three control Employees’ State Insurance Corporation Dispensaries in Delhi, India—Baseline report," FRONTIERS Research Update. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF)

Mishra, Anurag, Leila Caleb Varkey, Emma Ottolenghi, Anjana Das, Dale Huntington, Susan Adamchak, and Shahina Begum. "Men in maternity study: A summary of the findings from pre-intervention interviews with women and their husbands attending ante-natal clinics at ESIC facilities in Delhi—Baseline summary results," FRONTIERS Research Update. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF)

Shannon, Caitlin and Beverly Winikoff. "Use of misoprostol in the third stage of labor [letter]," Lancet 359(9307): 709.*

Sloan, Nancy L., Elizabeth Jordan, and Beverly Winikoff. “Effects of iron supplementation on maternal hematologic status in pregnancy,” American Journal of Public Health 92(2): 288–293.*

Robert H. Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health. Integrated Management of Child Care Supervisory Aid and Evaluation Tool, Child Guide, software/diskette and instructions. New York: Population Council.

———.  “A demonstration project on approaches to providing quality maternal care in Kenya: Findings from a baseline survey in four districts in Western Province, Kenya.” Nairobi: Population Council.

———. “Essential obstetric care manual for health service providers in Kenya.” Nairobi: Population Council.

———.  “Standards for maternal care in Kenya.” Nairobi: Population Council.

2001
"Honduras: Postpartum and postabortion patients want family planning," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 25. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Medina, Ruth, Ricardo Vernon, Irma Mendoza, and Claudia Aguilar. "Expansion of postpartum and postabortion contraception in Honduras," FRONTIERS Final Report. (PDF)

Shaheen, Mahmoud, Laila Nawar, Dale Huntington, and Sahar Hegazi. “Special studies program of the pilot health project West Bank and Gaza,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"West Bank and Gaza: Stress the importance and cost-effectiveness of postpartum care," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 20. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

2000
Castro, Roberto, Lourdes Campero, Bernardo Hernández, and Ana Langer. "A study on maternal mortality in Mexico through a qualitative approach," Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine 9(6): 679–690. (abstract)

* Not available from the Population Council.
** Please e-mail frontiers-india@popcouncil.org for additional information.



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25 June 2008