WHO Labor Care Guide: MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership Tools & Resources

To improve quality of care during labor and childbirth, facilitate effective implementation of World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations: Intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience, published in 2018, and promote a shift towards improving the experience of childbirth, WHO developed the WHO Labour Care Guide (LCG) and accompanying user’s manual. The WHO LCG is a tool to facilitate implementation of quality, evidence-based, woman-centered care for a positive childbirth experience within the context of a broader, rights-based approach. These resources from MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership facilitates implementation of the LCG at a country level.

This policy brief from MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership and the World Health Organization provides maternal and newborn health stakeholders and decision-makers with an overview of the WHO Labor Care Guide (LCG). This includes its guiding principles, key advantages of making the shift from the WHO partograph to the WHO LCG, and what is required to ensure an enabling environment that will facilitate a sustainable introduction of the WHO LCG.

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This brief provides an overview of the field test of the learning resource package developed by MOMENTUM and Laerdal Global Health to train providers to complete and interpret the WHO LCG. This includes select results of the evaluation on the usability, feasibility, effectiveness, and acceptability of the package of learning materials, as well as changes made to the learning materials based on the field test.

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WHO Labor Care Guide: MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership Tools & Resources

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