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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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