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Motivation or demotivation of health workers providing maternal health services in rural areas in Vietnam: findings from a Mixed-methods study

mHealth for Midwives: A Call to Action

The use of mobile phones has grown exponentially in the last decade including in some of the most remote and low-resource regions of the world. The use of mobile technology in health care is known as mHealth. mHealth interventions are being used internationally to improve maternal and child health. Be it the use of a mobile phone to call for emergency transport, remote consultation, or large-scale short message service (SMS)-based community education programs, mHealth is demonstrating its utility in reproductive health programs throughout the world. This article describes the evolution and challenges of mHealth, discusses the role of mHealth in achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, and addresses the potential impact of mHealth for midwives

The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review

Whether breast cancer screening does more harm than good has been debated extensively. The main questions are how large the benefit of screening is in terms of reduced breast cancer mortality and how substantial the harm is in terms of overdiagnosis, which is defined as cancers detected at screening that would not have otherwise become clinically apparent in the woman's lifetime. 

Essential Interventions, Commodities and Guidelines for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Serious and Life-Threatening Pregnancy-Related Infections: Opportunities to Reduce the Global Burden

This Policy Forum article aims to highlight opportunities for screening and appropriate treatment of life-threatening pregnancy-related interventions.

Status of India’s Skilled Birth Attendants Programme

This poster summarises work done by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, authored by Astrid Schwarz, Himanshu Bhushan and Joseph Valdez. It summarises the status of the skilled birth attendants programme in the Odisha State, India, which was launched in 2005. Factors that hinder successful training and priority actions to improve the situation are outlined.