Strengthening quality midwifery education meeting WHO report

Overview

The meeting was convened in the context of increasing evidence to indicate that a consistent barrier to the provision of quality midwifery care is inadequate midwifery education, often reduced to a matter of weeks without qualified faculty and lacking in practical application. There are potential links between poor education, poor clinical care and mistreatment of women in facilities. The State of the World’s Midwifery Report (SOWMy) 2014 notes that of the 73 countries from which data were gathered, only four countries have the workforce numbers to provide the care needed by women in their reproductive years, and by newborns.