Maternal Mortality

"The annual number of female deaths from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes) during pregnancy and childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy" (WHO Global Health Observatory). It is measured as the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.

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Timeliness

The ability of the health system to provide primary care services to patients when they need them, with acceptable and reasonable wait times and at days and times that are convenient to them.

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Safety

The practice of following procedures and guidelines in the delivery of PHC services in order to avoid harm to the people for whom care is intended.

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Efficiency

Efficiency refers to the ability of a health system to attain its desired objective(s) with the available resources, while minimizing waste and maximizing capacities to deliver care to those who need it.

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Effectiveness

Effectiveness measures whether health care and services are driven by evidence, adhere to established standards, and achieve their intended result.

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People-Centeredness

People-centeredness means organizing the health system around the comprehensive needs of people rather than individual diseases.

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First Contact Accessibility

The capacity of a primary care system to serve as the first point of contact, or a patient's entry point to the health system, for most of a person's health needs.

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Coordination

Coordination of care refers to the system's ability to oversee and manage patient care over time and across levels of care to ensure appropriate follow-up, minimize the risk of error, and prevent complications.

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Continuity

Continuity is the degree to which a patient experiences a series of discrete healthcare events as coherent and consistent with their medical needs and personal context.

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Comprehensiveness

The provision of holistic and appropriate care across promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative, chronic and palliative service needs.

Indicators
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Maternal mortality rate
Related Concepts

Delivering high-quality primary health care requires many elements of the health system working effectively together. This mapping explores how different concepts with the framework relate to one another.

Upstream elements are those that are required to develop or improve a particular concept. Absence or poor performance of an upstream element is expected to negatively impact the performance of the concept of focus.

Complementary elements are those where improvements or developments in this area will be mutually beneficial to the concept of focus but not required for improvement.

UPSTREAM CONCEPTS
COMPLEMENTARY CONCEPTS
UPSTREAM SUBDOMAINS
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Information & Technology
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Medicines & Supplies
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Physical Infrastructure
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Management of Services
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Service Availability & Readiness
Maternal Mortality
COMPLEMENTARY SUBDOMAINS
Adjustment to Population Health Needs
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Improving health status through research and potential scaling of innovations can help to reduce maternal mortality.
Access
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Timely access to health care improves health status.
Coordination
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Well-coordinated care allows for the patient to receive appropriate health care management across levels of the health system.
Population Health Management
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Active outreach and priority setting can impact access to care and improve health status.
Safety
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Safety practices prevent situations that would cause added harm or illness.
Timeliness
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Timely access to health care improves health status.
Service Coverage
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Effective service coverage impacts access to care and can have an effect on health status.
Improvement Strategies

Explore the Improvement Strategies for approaches to addressing Capacity and Performance concepts that influence Impact.

Potential Funding opportunities

Interested in understanding how this topic intersects with investment opportunities from major funding streams? The Global Frameworks Mapping provides a starting point to help identify and make connections between key PHC topics, relevant funding initiatives, and investment cases.

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UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025
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UHC in Africa: A Framework for Action
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Supplies Partnership 2021-2030
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Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
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Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund 2018-2022
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Institutional Strategy
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High-Performance Health-Financing for Universal Health Coverage: Driving Sustainable, Inclusive Growth in the 21st Century