Pemeriksaan kompetensi dan kualitas penyedia pelayanan kesehatan ibu/bayi pada negara Amerika Latin dan Karibiah terpilih
Assessment of provider competence and quality of maternal/newborn care in selected Latin American and Caribbean countries Joyce E. Thompson,1 Sandra Land,2 Alma Virginia Camacho-Hubner,3 and Judith T. Fullerton4 Abstract Objective. To obtain a snapshot of the maternal and newborn care provided by different types of maternal and child health providers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to 1) better inform advocacy and programmatic strategies and interventions to improve the quality of those services in the region, and 2) determine the need for more rigorous study of the issues. Methods. A rapid assessment of 83 health workers providing antepartum, intrapartum, and immediate postpartum and newborn care (within two hours of birth) in eight LAC countries was conducted in November and December of 2011. Health workers were observed by two-person expert maternal/newborn clinician teams using pretested forms based on international quality-of-care standards. A total of 105