Overcoming blame culture: key strategies to catalyse maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response

M V Kinney¹, L T Day^{2

3}, F Palestra⁴, A Biswas⁵, D Jackson^{1

6}, N Roos^{7

8}, A de Jonge^{9

10}, P Doherty¹¹, A A Manu¹², A C Moran¹³, A S George¹; MPDSR Technical Working Group

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
² Maternal Newborn Health Group, Maternal Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Maternal Newborn Health Group, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁴ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ UNFPA, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁶ Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Solna, Clinical Epidemiology Division, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁸ Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁹ Midwifery Science, AVAG (Academy Midwifery Amsterdam and Groningen), Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Options Consultancy Services Ltd, St Magnus House, London, UK.
¹² Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
¹³ Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health & Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

M V Kinney et al. BJOG. 2022 May.

. 2022 May;129(6):839-844.

doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.16989. Epub 2021 Nov 16.

M V Kinney¹, L T Day^{2

3}, F Palestra⁴, A Biswas⁵, D Jackson^{1

6}, N Roos^{7

8}, A de Jonge^{9

10}, P Doherty¹¹, A A Manu¹², A C Moran¹³, A S George¹; MPDSR Technical Working Group

¹ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
² Maternal Newborn Health Group, Maternal Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Maternal Newborn Health Group, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁴ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ UNFPA, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁶ Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Solna, Clinical Epidemiology Division, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁸ Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁹ Midwifery Science, AVAG (Academy Midwifery Amsterdam and Groningen), Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Options Consultancy Services Ltd, St Magnus House, London, UK.
¹² Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
¹³ Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health & Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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