Maternal Health Task Force
The Maternal Health Task Force strives to create a strong, well-informed and collaborative community of individuals focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide.
Email
MHTF@hsph.harvard.edu
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677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Respectful Maternity Care: The Universal Rights of Childbearing Women
This document focuses specifically on the interpersonal aspects of care received by women seeking maternity services. A woman’s relationship with maternity care providers and the maternity care system during pregnancy and childbirth is vitally important. Not only are these encounters the vehicle for essential and potentially lifesaving health services, women’s experiences with caregivers at this time have the impact to empower and comfort or to inflict lasting damage and emotional trauma, adding to or detracting from women’s confidence and self-esteem.Document 0: https://hsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Final_RMC_Charter.pdf
Document 1: https://hsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Final_RMC_Charter.pdf
Document 2: https://hsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Final_RMC_Charter.pdf