Overcoming blame culture: key strategies to catalyse maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response
This commentarypresents strategies to identify, address and overcome the blame culture relating to MPDSR. It builds from Lewis’s2014 framework on the cultural environment of maternaldeath and near-miss reviews published in the BJOG 2014supplement on quality of care.
WHO MPDSR materials to support implementation (2021)
This document is a practical step by step guidance, relevant to establish a framework to assess the burden of maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths, including trends in numbers and causes of death and on how to link maternal and perinatal death reviews.
MPDSR Capacity building package (2021)
This document is developed to build the knowledge and skills of the facilitators to conduct a virtual workshop when in-person training is not possible.
WHO Knowledge brief : Implementation of MPDSR as part of quality of care efforts for maternal and newborn health: considerations for synergies and alignment
This knowledge brief is developed to support policy-makers, managers, practitioners and implementing partners engaged in improving quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health. The brief is informed by the implementation experience of the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal Newborn and Child Health.
Time to respond: a report on the global implementation of maternal death surveillance and response, 2016.
A report on the global implementation of Maternal Death Surveillance and Response.
National Guideline on Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) – Bangladesh
This national guideline on MPDSR is intended for health and family planning managers, planners, development partners, professionals, health care providers and field level health and family planning staffs to understand and know about MPDSR implementation in Bangladesh.