This commentarypresents strategies to identify, address and overcome the blame culture relating to MPDSR. It builds from Lewis’s2014 framework on the cultural environment of maternaldeath and near-miss reviews published in the BJOG 2014supplement on quality of care.
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Ismaziah, a community nurse and midwife, assesses the child’s health and runs through the standard medical protocol checklist.
Overcoming blame culture: key strategies to catalyse maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response
Summary brief: The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: Evolution, Implementation and Progress 2017-2020 report
Integrating stakeholder and community engagement in quality of care initiatives for maternal, newborn and child health
This module aims to make stakeholder and community engagement an integral part of quality improvement initiatives and suggests approaches to make stakeholder and community engagement comprehensive and meaningful.
Guidance on developing national learning health-care systems to sustain and scale up delivery of quality maternal, newborn and child health care
Improving the quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health: implementation guide for national, district and facility levels
This implementation guide provides practical guidance for policy makers, programme managers, health practitioners and other actors working to establish and implement quality of care (QoC) programmes for maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) at national, district and facility level.
Human resource strategies to improve newborn care in health facilities in low- and middle-income countries
This documents aims to provide a framework and strategies for countries to transform their policies on human resources for health (HRH) and provide their health workers with the knowledge and technical and behavioural
skills necessary for high-quality care by 2030, to ensure that all newborns survive and thrive.
Essential Newborn Care Course (second edition)
Using the Circle of Learning and Improvement, the Essential Newborn Care Course (ENCC) aims to build competencies that save lives and help all newborns reach their full potential.
Time to respond: a report on the global implementation of maternal death surveillance and response, 2016.
A report on the global implementation of Maternal Death Surveillance and Response.
WHO Knowledge brief : Implementation of MPDSR as part of quality of care efforts for maternal and newborn health: considerations for synergies and alignment
This knowledge brief is developed to support policy-makers, managers, practitioners and implementing partners engaged in improving quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health. The brief is informed by the implementation experience of the Network for Improving Quality of Care for
Maternal Newborn and Child Health.
MPDSR Capacity building package (2021)
This document is developed to build the knowledge and skills of the facilitators to conduct a virtual workshop when in-person training is not possible.