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Linking, Strengthening and Supporting –
Strategies to Enhance Pacific Midwifery and Improve Women’s Health
PROFESSOR PAT BRODIE AM
BRIAN SPURRETT ORATION
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Our focus ….
Improving Maternal and Newborn Health
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“The impact that regulated,
competent, respectful midwives make
to positive maternal and infant health
outcomes is seen as central to the
efforts to accelerate progress towards
the achievement of Millennium
Development Goals 4 and 5”.
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“ there is no better health investment
than in the spread, support, deepening
and valuing of midwifery”.
Kate Gilmore, Deputy Executive Director, UNFPA
speaking at the Women Deliver Conference June 2013.
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A Father's Commitment to "Kangaroo Care"
LINKING … “to make a connection with
or between a number of different
groups, or individuals.. ….each linking
with each other .. …. In order to
achieve something”.
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“community level interventions in
hard to reach communities offer
some hope in the form of secondary
support”.
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“…building capacity in critical
components of health systems to
achieve more equitable and sustained
health services" .
World Health Organization (2006)
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“The impact that regulated,
competent, respectful midwives make
to positive maternal and infant health
outcomes is seen as central to the
efforts to accelerate progress towards
the achievement of Millennium
Development Goals 4 and 5”.
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“ there is no better health investment
than in the spread, support, deepening
and valuing of midwifery”.
Kate Gilmore, Deputy Executive Director, UNFPA
speaking at the Women Deliver Conference June 2013.
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