Births attended by skilled health personnel

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Date created: 2024-12-23
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Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel (generally doctors, nurses or midwives but can refer to other health professionals providing childbirth care) is the proportion of childbirths attended by professional health personnel. According to the current definition (1) these are competent maternal and newborn health (MNH) professionals educated, trained and regulated to national and international standards. They are competent to: (i) provide and promote evidence-based, human-rights based, quality, socio-culturally sensitive and dignified care to women and newborns; (ii) facilitate physiological processes during labour and delivery to ensure a clean and positive childbirth experience; and (iii) identify and manage or refer women and/or newborns with complications.
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Topic Health service coverage
Limitations No limitations were specified for this dataset
Periodicity Yearly
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Date Created 12/23/2024 1:17:36 PM
Last Modified 12/23/2024 1:17:36 PM
Theme(s) Health service coverage
Categories Sustainable development goals
Source(s) WHO
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