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    Maternal Mortality

     

    Welcome to the course on Maternal Mortality. Maternal morbidity and mortality remain major problems in many parts of the world - one of the most important threats to Public Health. The purpose of the course is to provide the people who may be able to help tackle the problem with the knowledge and skills to do so. We will focus on identifying the size of the problem, the causes, and the evidence base behind interventions to improve the situation. We will end by identifying ways to implement evidence based solutions in your own setting.

    This course - originally a Peoples-uni Open Online Course - has been prepared by, and contains material from, Peoples-uni, an educational initiative providing online Public Health capacity building for health professionals. The course provides basic introduction to key aspects of the discipline of public health.

    How to navigate the course

    Each section comprises a set of resources that we think you will find interesting - click on the collections of resources in each section. There is a forum in each topic for reflection, and there is a quiz at the end to check your understanding of the concepts.

    We encourage you to reflect on what you have learned or comment on the course. When you click on the hyperlink in each forum labelled reflection, you will be able to add a new topic or respond to a previous one. You may want to share your learning from this and other readings, comment on the topics from your own experience, comment on others' posts, or provide feedback on how we can improve the content and presentation.

    In the final section you will see that you can gain a Certificate of Completion - the requirements for this are to access the resources and post a reflection in each section, and pass the quiz at the end. This is a self-directed course, to be taken at your own pace.

    The course was developed by Diederike Geelhoed and Katwesige Wycliff

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  • Section 1

    Introduction to maternal health
     
     
    Learning outcome:
    Understand the magnitude and implications of maternal mortality for your local population, and of problems in data collection and accuracy.'

  • Section 2

    Epidemiology and causation
     

    Learning outcome:
    Understand how the epidemiology of maternal mortality (including the role of cultural, social, and behavioural factors), as well as the structure, functions and performance of your health services system (local and national levels) are relevant to the causation and potential policy and delivery solutions.

  • Section 3

    Evidence-based solutions in the Health Service

    Learning outcome:
    Understand how the structure, functions and performance of your health services system (local and national levels) might be relevant to the causation and potential policy and delivery solutions in relation to maternal mortality. 
     

  • Section 4

    Evidence-based Solutions outside the health service

     

    Learning outcome:
    Explore and analyse evidence-based policy and delivery solutions outside the health system that can be implemented to reduce the burden of maternal mortality.

  • Section 5

    Implementing an Intervention
     
    Learning outcome:
    Reflect on how you might use the information from the course to develop a plan for the implementation of an intervention to reduce the burden of maternal mortality in your setting.

  • Quiz and certificate

    You can earn a certificate of completion if you access each of the resource pages above, and pass the quiz below.

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      Quiz on Maternal Mortality Test
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      Take this quiz to test your knowledge of the resources. There are 15 questions with a pass mark of 11 correct answers.