A systems approach to improving maternal health in the Philippines

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 104-110

  Huntington, Dale ^a   Banzon, Eduardo ^b   Recidoro, Zenaida Dy ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MATERNAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; REFORM PROCESS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; PHILIPPINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; PHILIPPINES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYSTEMS THEORY;

BICOL; CAMARINES NORTE; CAMARINES SUR; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 84856612066     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.092825     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Everybody's business strengthening health systems to improve healthoutcomes: WHO's framework for action. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2007.
2. Atun R, de Jongh TE, Secci FV, Ohiri K, Adeyi O. Integration of targeted health interventions into health systems: a conceptual framework for analysis. Health Policy Plan 2010;25:104-11. doi:10.1093/heapol/czp055 PMID:19917651
3. de Savigny D, Adam T, editors. Systems thinking for health systems strengthening. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2009.
4. Atun R, Menabde N. Health systems and systems thinking. In: Coker R, Atun R, McKee M, editors. Health systems and the challenge of communicable diseases: experiences from Europe and Latin America. Maidenhead: McGraw Hill & Open University Press; 2008.
5. Béhague DP, Storeng KT. Collapsing the vertical-horizontal divide: an ethnographic study of evidence-based policy-making in maternal health. Am J Public Health 2008;98:644-9. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.123117 PMID:18309123
6. Transforming the Philippines health sector: challenges and future directions. Pasig City & Washington: The World Bank; 2011. Available from: http://www.wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2011/08/05/000386194_20110805013231/Rendered/PDF/635630WP0Box361516B0P11906800PUBLIC00ACS.pdf.[accessed 11 October 2011].
7. Knippenberg R, Lawn JE, Darmstadt GL, Begkoyian G, Fogstad H, Walelign N et al. Systematic scaling up of neonatal care in countries. Lancet 2005;365:1087-98. PMID:15781104
8. Pasha O, Goldenberg RL, McClure EM, Saleem S, Goudar SS, Althabe F et al. Communities, birth attendants and health facilities: a continuum of emergency maternal and newborn care (the global network's EmONC trial). BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2010;10:82. doi:10.1186/1471-2393-10-82 PMID:21156060
9. Rosenfield A, Min CJ, Freedman LP. Making motherhood safe in developing countries. N Engl J Med 2007;356:1395-7. doi:10.1056/NEJMp078026 PMID:17409320
10. Freedman LP, Waldman RJ, de Pinho H, Wirth ME, Chowdhury AM, Rosenfield A. Transforming health systems to improve the lives of women and children. Lancet 2005;365:997-1000. doi:10.1016/S0140- 6736(05)71090-4 PMID:15767003
11. Rana TG, Chataut BD, Shakya G, Nanda G, Pratt A, Sakai S. Strengthening emergency obstetric care in Nepal: the women's right to life and health project (WRLHP). Int J Gynaecol Obstet 2007;98:271-7. doi:10.1016/j. ijgo.2007.05.017 PMID:17604032
12. Kerber KJ, de Graft-Johnson JE, Bhutta SA, Okong P, Starrs A, Lawn JE. Continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health: from slogan to service delivery. Lancet 2007;370:1358-69. doi:10.1016/S0140- 6736(07)61578-5 PMID:17933651.
13. Philippines National Demographic and Health Survey 2008: key findings. Calverton: National Statistics Office &ICF Macro; 2009.
14. Lavado RF, Lagrada LP, Ulep VGT, Tan LM. Who provides good quality prenatal care in the Philippines? (Discussion Paper Series No. 2010-18). Makati City: Philippine Institute for Development Studies; 2010.
15. Project appraisal document on a proposed loan in the amount of US$16.0 million to the Republic of the Philippines for a second Women's Health & Safe Motherhood Project (Report 31456-PH). Washington: The World Bank; 2005. Available from: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187282&theSitePK=523679&entityID=000090341_20050405090650&searchMenuPK=64187282&theSitePK=523679 [accessed 3 November 2011]
16. PSGC Interactive [Internet]. Region V (Bicol Region). Makati City: Philippine National Statistical Coordination Board. Available from: http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/regview.asp?region=05 [accessed 3 November 2011]
17. Philippine Poverty Statistics [Internet]. Table 24: ranking of provinces based on poverty incidence among families: 2000, 2003 and 2006. Makati City: National Statistical Coordination Board; 2011. Available from: http://www. nscb.gov.ph/poverty/2006_05mar08/table_24.asp [accessed 26 October 2011].
18. Monitoring the building blocks of health systems: a handbook of indicators and their measurement strategies. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2010.
19. Implementing health reforms for rapid reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality (Administrative Order No. 2010-001). Naga City: Department of Health; 2008.
20. Administration of life savings drugs and medicines by midwives to rapidly reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality (Administrative Order No. 2010-0014). Naga City: Department of Health; 2010.
21. Sorsogon Province, Sanggunian Panlalawigan Provincial Ordinance regulating the practices of trained birth attendants and all health workers on safe motherhood/maternal and child health programs in the province of Sorsogon (Provincial Ordinance No. 05-2008). Sorsogon: Sangguniang Panlalawigan; 2009.
22. Gonzalez G, Eichler R, Beith A. Pay for performance for women's health teams and pregnant women in the Philippines. Washington: United States Agency for International Development;2010.Available from: http://www.mendeley.com/research/pay-performance-womens-health-teams-pregnant-women-philippines/ [accessed 26 October 2011]
23. Performance-based grants for reproductive health in the Philippines (Policy Brief WHO/RHR/11.04). Geneva: World Health Organization, Department of Reproductive Health and Research; 2011.