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Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness: A Matrix of Shared Responsibility
This fold-out poster describes the responsibilities, actions, practices and skills needed to help ensure the safety and well being of the woman and her newborn throughout pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. It outlines plans and actions that can be implemented wherever life-threatening delays may occur—at home, on the way to care or at the place of care. BP/CR includes the woman and her family, as well as the community, health care providers, facilities that serve them, and the policies that affect care for the woman and the newborn.
The BP/CR matrix is a programming tool. It is a list of behaviors and skills that address delay-causing factors at various levels. Program planners can use the matrix to select desirable and feasible activities and adapt them to local realities. The matrix is also an advocacy tool. It enumerates the roles of facilities and communities and the responsibilities of policymakers, healthcare providers, families and women. In this role, it helps support provider and community demands for improvements. (2001; English introductory text revised in 2004) Available in English, French and Spanish. Note: Print copies may be ordered for free in limited quantities. To view the English text (as a handout), please click on the link below.
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