Maternal Newborn Health Registry

The purpose of the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research is to develop
and test feasible, sustainable interventions to improve the outcome of women and children and
to develop research capacity in resource-poor settings. Because most of the sites have weak
health care systems, unacceptably high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality and lack
birth and death registries, they lack precise data on outcomes and measures of care.
Information from a vital registry system will allow the Global Network to document maternal
and neonatal mortality, design trials to address the major causes of poor outcome, assess the
outcome of our interventions, and ultimately disseminate the results as the basis of public
health policy.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Community-level

- Appropriate for long-term registry data collection and the conduct of ongoing
Global Network research

- At least 300 deliveries per year

- Participant-level

- Pregnant women intending to deliver within study cluster

- Women who deliver within the study cluster

- Women who reside in the community but are transferred for care at delivery

Exclusion Criteria:

- Participant-level

- Opt out of consent to include data in the study