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Program note
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/s0020-7292(02)00190-x
Subject(s) - medicine , medical emergency , psychological intervention , vacuum aspiration , family planning , emergency medicine , environmental health , population , nursing , research methodology
This is the third Program note in a series that features the UN process indicators for monitoring obstetric servicesw1,2x. Issued by UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA, they are used to identify the availability, use, and, to some extent, quality of emergency obstetric care(EmOC) w3x. They are also useful at monitoring changes in these three important aspects of health care. The definitions are summarized in Table 1 and recommended levels can be found in the results tables. The UN indicators developed from an understanding that certain medical services or procedures are necessary to save the lives of women with obstetric complications. These procedures or ‘signal functions’ distinguish facilities that provide basic or comprehensive emergency obstetric care from those that do not. If a facility has provided the first six functions in the past 3 months, it provides basic EmOC and if it has provided all eight of the functions, it qualifies as comprehensive: – parenteral antibiotics; – parenteral oxytocic drugs; – parenteral anticonvulsants for pregnancyinduced-hypertension;