How to Make Maternal Health Services More Women-Friendly: A practical guide

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This guide provides low cost tools for health service managers and health personnel who wish to improve the quality of maternal health services and make them more "friendly" to women. The lack of "women-friendliness" in reproductive services often has greater impact on the health of poorer women who are at greater risk of maternal mortality and morbidity. This guide starts from the premise that both "technical" and "emotional" care are essential in these services and that women-friendliness should include both technically sound services as well as supportive and respectful human environments which are relevant to the needs, cultures and communities in which they exist.

Product Code: B/MHS
Author(s): N MacKeith, S F Murray, H Standing, R Kumwenda Phiri, Y Ahmed
Publisher: Institute of Child Health
ISBN: n/a
Year: 2001