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MNH Update
November 2002; Number 34
Please click on the website address http://www.mnh.jhpiego.org/updates/ to read the MNH Update. For those who cannot access the version on the website, please scroll down below for a text version.
MNH PROGRAM HOSTS ADVANCED TRAINING SKILLS AND CHANGE LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP FOR REGIONAL EXPERTS
From 28 October-4 November, the MNH Program sponsored a Regional Experts Advanced Training Skills and Change Leadership workshop in Baltimore, MD, for doctors, nurses, and nurse-midwives from the Latin America and Caribbean Region. Through its Regional Expert Development Initiative, the MNH Program supports clinicians to become leaders in their field by updating their evidence-based maternal and newborn knowledge and skills, enhancing their training skills, and equipping them to be advocates for change. This workshop focused on group process skills, problem solving, and clinical decision-making skills, as well as on the skills needed to train new trainers. A number of other topics were introduced, including change leadership (to prepare the participants for their role as change agents), transfer of learning, performance improvement, and preservice education.
At the start of the workshop, participants shared their experiences of conducting training in their own or other countries. They also presented their efforts to implement their action plans aimed at improving MNH clinical practices at their worksites. As part of their participation in the initiative, the experts commit to an action plan to change selected maternal and newborn healthcare practices at their respective institutions. Sixteen doctors, nurses, and nurse-midwives from eight countries-Bolivia, Chile, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay-participated in the workshop. A directory of these Program-trained experts, with information on how to contact them, will be available from the MNH Program in December.
WHITE RIBBON ALLIANCE CALL TO ACTION NOW AVAILABLE
Last month's MNH Update reported on Saving Mothers' Lives: What Works, an International Conference on Safe Motherhood Best Practices organized by the White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) for Safe Motherhood in India and the Global Secretariat. Because the conference in India was the first international conference of WRA members, it provided an ideal forum for writing a "call to action" for the alliance. Several MNH Program staff members participated, along with other conference attendees, in writing the call to action, which was based on the major themes and issues that emerged at the conference. The document will serve as a statement to motivate and focus alliance members' continued work.
The call to action urges WRA members to continue building coalitions that focus on the need for resources to implement evidence-based safe motherhood strategies and on the need to create well-informed people who demand high-quality healthcare services. It also lists actions that governments, providers, civil society, donors, and NGOs can take to help reduce maternal mortality, including investing in policies for safe motherhood, supporting skilled attendance at birth, and fostering partnerships between indigenous and western medicine.
The complete call to action is now available from the WRA Global Secretariat at [log in to unmask]
MNH PARTICIPATES IN ANNUAL MEETING OF AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
The world's largest meeting of public health professionals convened in Philadelphia, 9-13 November, at the American Public Health Association's (APHA) 130th Annual Meeting & Exposition. MNH staff contributed the papers and presentations listed below. For more information, and to read complete abstracts, please visit http://www.apha.org/meetings.
· Childbirth: Private event, public responsibility. An examination of birth preparedness and complication readiness by Sereen Thaddeus, MA, MPH and Nancy Russell, MA.
· Communication: The power of local stakeholders to drive campaigns for social change. An examination of a communication campaign in Indonesia and how local stakeholders were able to overcome resistance from the central government. Lucy S. Mize, BSN, MPH
· Improving pregnancy outcomes in Zambia: Development and implementation of a maternity counseling kit to strengthen counseling and antenatal care practices. Genevieve Khulu Mwale, MSc
· Increasing political commitment for maternal health under decentralization in Indonesia: A use for information and advocacy. Lucy S. Mize, BSN, MPH
· Institutional capacity building: A model for sustainable maternal health training at district hospitals in Indonesia: Anne Hyre, MPH, MSN, CNM
· Rebirth of newborn care: Changing newborn care practices. An examination of the relationship between newborn survival and antenatal and skilled childbirth care. Harshad Sanghvi, MBChB, MMed
The Maternal & Neonatal Health (MNH) Program at the JHPIEGO Corporation produces MNH Updates for those working to promote maternal and neonatal health. Activities reported are those of the MNH Program. Please notify us of other Safe Motherhood activities of interest to our readers. Your comments are welcome. Previous issues can be viewed on our website at www.mnh.jhpiego.org/updates/. For more information about MNH Updates, e-mail Kathleen Hines, [log in to unmask], or visit our website, www.mnh.jhpiego.org/index.asp.
This publication was made possible through support provided by the Nutrition and Maternal Health Division, Office of Health and Nutrition, Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development, under the terms of Award No. HRN-A-00-98-00043-00. The opinions expressed herein are those of JHPIEGO and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Dr Jane Sandall
Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health
King's College
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