3045.0 Motherhood: Strategies for Safety

Monday, November 5, 2007: 8:30 AM
Oral
Organizer:
Lynn Freedman
Moderator:
Lynn Freedman

8:30 AM
Development of Indicator Scores Using Items from the WHO Safe Motherhood Needs Assessment to Examine Utilization of Maternal Health Services in South Africa
Debra J. Jackson, MPH DSc, Lyness Matizirofa, MSc and Renette Blignaut, PhD
           
8:50 AM
Safe motherhood in historical perspective: Guatemalan midwifery during the 20th century
Elizabeth J. Quinn
           
9:10 AM
Making facilities birth-friendly in Timor-Leste
Susan Thompson, MPH, Nadine Hoekman, MPH and Mary Anne Mercer, DrPH
     
9:30 AM
A protracted launch: The first two decades of the safe motherhood initiative
Jeremy Shiffman, PhD and Stephanie Smith
        

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus, Socialist Caucus, Maternal and Child Health, Community Health Workers SPIG

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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