The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care. Learners who take this course will become familiar with the key technical and programmatic considerations in the implementation of life-saving interventions among mothers and newborns. 

Photo Credit: Copyright 2001 CCP, Courtesy of Photshare. A pregnant woman rides in the back of a pickup truck for an emergency visit to a hospital in Zambia
Each year, more than 500,000 women and an estimated four million newborns die of pregnancy-related conditions. Yet nearly all of those life-threatening conditions can be addressed effectively with safe low-tech interventions by skilled providers at peripheral health center and district hospital levels. Learners who complete this course will be able to:
  • Explain the rationale for including emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) in maternal and newborn health programs

  • List key direct causes of maternal and newborn mortality

  • Define each of the key functions of basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC) and comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care (CEmONC)

  • Discuss the met need for EmONC services

Knowledge for Health Project, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International(FHI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), With IT Support from Google.

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