Innovative MOM program may improve maternal health in eastern Burma
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 06:00
in Health & Medicine
An innovative community-based maternal health delivery strategy (MOM - mobile obstetric medics) implemented among internally displaced ethnic communities in eastern Burma was associated with substantially improved access to a range of essential maternal health services, such as a ten fold increase in the proportion of women in delivery attended to by health staff trained to provide emergency care. The outcomes of this programme are discussed in a paper by Luke Mullany from the Centre of Public Health and Human Rights, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA, and colleagues in this week's issue of PLoS Medicine...