This guideline covers the routine postnatal care that women and their babies should receive in the first 8 weeks after the birth. It includes the organisation and delivery of postnatal care, identifying and managing common and serious health problems in women and their babies, how to help parents form st...
This guideline covers the care that should be offered to women with a twin or triplet pregnancy in addition to the routine care that is offered to all women during pregnancy. It aims to reduce the risk of complications and improve outcomes for women and their babies....
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing hypertension (high blood pressure), including preeclampsia, during pregnancy, labour and birth. It also includes advice for women with hypertension
who wish to conceive and women who have had a pregnancy complicated by hypertension. It aims
to improve care du...
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage in women with
complications, such as pain and bleeding, in early pregnancy (that is, up to 13 completed weeks of
pregnancy). It aims to improve how early pregnancy loss is diagnosed, and the support women are
given, to limit ...
This guideline covers care during labour and birth for women who need extra support because they
have a medical condition or complications in their current or previous pregnancy. The guideline also
covers women who have had no antenatal care. It aims to improve experiences and outcomes for
women and thei...
This guideline covers the care that healthy women and their babies should be offered during pregnancy. It aims to ensure that pregnant women are offered regular check-ups, information and support....
The World Health Organization’s recommendations on optimizing the roles of health workers aim to help address critical health workforce shortages that slow down progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals. A more rational distribution of tasks and responsibilities among cadres of h...
The World Health Organization’s recommendations on optimizing the roles of health workers aim to help address critical health workforce shortages that slow down progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals. A more rational distribution of tasks and responsibilities among cadres of h...