TY - JOUR
T1 - Overcoming blame culture
T2 - key strategies to catalyse maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response
AU - MPDSR Technical Working Group
AU - Kinney, M V
AU - Day, L T
AU - Palestra, F
AU - Biswas, A
AU - Jackson, D
AU - Roos, N
AU - de Jonge, A
AU - Doherty, P
AU - Manu, A
AU - Moran, A C
AU - George, A S
AU - the MPDSR Technical Working Group
N1 - Funding Information: Asha George and Mary Kinney are supported by the South African Research Chair's Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant No. 82769), the South African Medical Research Council and the Countdown 2030 project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Any opinion, finding and conclusion or recommendation expressed in this material is that of the authors and funders do not accept any liability in this regard. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the views, decisions or policies of the institutions with which they are affiliated.
PY - 2021/10/28
Y1 - 2021/10/28
N2 - Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) is a health systems process entailing the continuous cycle of identification, notification, and review of maternal and perinatal deaths (Surveillance), followed by actions to improve service delivery and quality of care and Response. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were an estimated 4.6 million maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths each year. During the pandemic, maternal and perinatal health outcomes have worsened, especially in low- and middle-income countries, highlighting the urgent need to galvanize MPDSR to end preventable mortality and strengthen health systems.
AB - Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) is a health systems process entailing the continuous cycle of identification, notification, and review of maternal and perinatal deaths (Surveillance), followed by actions to improve service delivery and quality of care and Response. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were an estimated 4.6 million maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths each year. During the pandemic, maternal and perinatal health outcomes have worsened, especially in low- and middle-income countries, highlighting the urgent need to galvanize MPDSR to end preventable mortality and strengthen health systems.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.16989
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.16989
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
C2 - 34709701
SN - 1470-0328
JO - BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
JF - BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
ER -