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Maximising Maternal Health - Strategies to reduce Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in the Primary Health Care Sector

Objectif

- To consider what should be done about positive health and well-being for women;
- To determine what constitutes effective antenatal and postnatal care;
- To set policies on the appropriate place and care provider for normal delivery;
- To make the link to the first referral level to ensure adequate referral to emergency obstetric services when complications occur.
Expected Outcome

- Understanding the issues related to improving maternal health is a new field of research which requires new approaches and is currently a focus of international concern;
- The proposed network would redress the paucity of regional work in the Mediterranean area;
- The development of a network of researchers with links to practitioners and administrators from four adjacent countries focusing on one particular area of primary health care - maternal health - will enable research links to be developed and strengthened by both the meetings and the exchange visits. The size of the network is a considerable one for a new research area, and the TMC-TMC collaboration and complementarity is a strength;
- Innovation strategies, practice and research emerging from the network could be disseminated internationally through the newsletter and through other activities of Safe Motherhood Initiative.


Follow-up

- The MAMAH network has organised two meetings, the first in Cairo in December 1995 and the second in Amman in October 1996. Proceedings of these meetings are available on request. A third meeting is planned for the end of 1997;
- The MAMAH newsletter has published two issues that have been distributed widely in the Maghreb and Mashrak. Further issues are planned. It is published in Arabic, English and French;
- Small grants have been given to participants to undertake small research studies in the area of maternal health. Two of these were on maternal mortality and one was on anaemia. Further small grants are planned;
- Visits have taken place between the participants. At this stage they have been between Italy and London and the Autonomous Palestinian Territories and London. Visits between the participants in the region are planned;
- The network has made steps towards profiling the state of maternal health in the region and a paper is being drafted summarising this. The participants are focusing on collaborative issues for research and intervention in the region that will improve Arab maternal health.
- To develop a network of researchers with links to health providers and policy makers from Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and the Autonomus and Occupied Palestinian Territories by organising three international meetings to explore research issues of mutual concern. These would be aimed at improving maternal health, and would explore the above four issues in relation to the primary health care sector;
- To arrange a number of one to two week exchanges within the Third Mediterranean Countries and between the European Union Countries and the Third Mediterranean Countries to develop collaborative research link;
- To prepare an Arabic, French and English newsletter on maximising maternal health for widespread dissemination.

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CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

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London School of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine
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Keppel Street
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