Antenatal care and maternal health: How effective is it?: A review of the evidence

The book, prepared for the World Health Organization's Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood research programme, draws together available information on how antenatal care could be used to reduce maternal mortality and serious morbidity in areas where levels currently high. This book concludes th...

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Autor principal: Rooney, Cleone
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Publicado: Geneva OMS 1992
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Sumario:The book, prepared for the World Health Organization's Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood research programme, draws together available information on how antenatal care could be used to reduce maternal mortality and serious morbidity in areas where levels currently high. This book concludes that strikingly little is known about the effectiveness of antenatal care for maternal health. Underlying this uncertainty is lack of information about the aetiology, pathogenesis and natural history of even some of the commoner complications of pregnancy such as hypertension; about the levels of patterns of causation of maternal mortality and morbidity in developing countries; and about the biological efficacy of treatments in current use