World Health Organization : Year 1985-86 ; World Health Organization, Maternal and Child Health, No. 86.9: Appropriate Technology for Maternal and Newborn Care ; Progress Report on Activities of World Health Organization and World Health Organization Collaborating Institutions

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1985-86 ; World Health Organization, Maternal and Child Health, No. 86.9: Appropriate Technology for Maternal and Newborn Care ; Progress Report on Activities of World Health Organization and World Health Organization Collaborating Institutions
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
1. INTRODUCTION The Task Force on appropriate technology for maternal and newborn care was formed to enhance the principles of primary health care by the use of appropriate technology in the improvement of the health of mothers and children. Primary health care (PHC), in the I context of Health for All by the Year 2000, means the provision of means and ways to PHC workers to improve the health of the communities and families, given their current resources. Appropriate health technologies are essential tools in the approach for achieving health for all.

Table of Contents
Contents Page 1 . INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1 Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3 Synthesis of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.4 Dissemination of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.5 Iterative re-evaluation process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 . PRENATALCARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1 The use of the gravidogram or symphysis-fundal height measurements for fetal growth monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 . 2 The use of a simple haemoglobin screening device for the detection of anaemic pregnant women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 . 3 The hypertensive disorders of pregnancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3 . POSITION DURING LABOUR AND DELIVERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3 . 1 Position and mobility during labour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2 Continuous human support during labour and delivery . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 . 3 The partogram . a chart for monitoring labour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4 . CARE OF DELIVERING NEWBORN BABIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.1 Clean hands of the birth attendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4 . 2 Clean cutting of the umbilical cord ...................................6 4.3 Clean surface for delivery . . . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6 4 . 4 Drying and warming the newborn baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.5 Weighing. measuring. recording and referring of the newborn baby . . . . 7 5 . THERMAL CONTROL OF TWE NEWBORN BABY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6 WEIGHING NEWBORN BABIES AND EVALUATION OF SCALES AND OTHER MEASURINGIRECORDING TECHNIQUES FOR GROWTH MONITORING . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6.1 Anthropometric measurements as surrogates for birthweight . . . . . . . . 10 7 . THE COLLABOMTING CENTRES aTWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 7.1 TheAfricancentre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7.2 The American Centres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7 . 3 The European Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7 . 4 The Weatern Pacific Centres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8 . THE WHO SECRETARIAT FOR THE TASK FORCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14