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WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience (2016)

The World Health Organization’s 2016 global guideline on routine antenatal care. It covers nutrition, checks on the mother and the baby, preventive measures, common symptoms of pregnancy, and how antenatal care is organised. Its best-known recommendation is a model of at least eight contacts with a health care provider during pregnancy.

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Overview

Technical summary

WHO guideline, 2016, ISBN 978-92-4-154991-2. The who.int page shows 28 November 2016; the WHO IRIS record gives an issue date of 2016-11-07. The who.int page states the licence CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO while the PDF copyright page says All rights reserved; the two are not reconciled. WHO states that the guideline is meant for every pregnant woman or girl who receives routine antenatal care, wherever it is delivered. Its recommendation E.7 is recorded as a claim on the antenatal care page. The who.int page lists later WHO updates of individual topics (2020 to 2022, for example on ultrasound scans in the first half of pregnancy); whether any changes a recommendation recorded here was not checked.

About this guideline

Edition
WHO guideline, 2016
Published
2016-11-28
Status
Not checked for a newer edition
Scope
Routine antenatal care for pregnant women and girls, in facilities or in the community

Source

Document
WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience
Publisher
World Health Organization
Edition note
WHO guideline, 2016. The who.int publication page shows 28 November 2016; the IRIS record (handle 10665/250796) gives an issue date of 2016-11-07. The text comes from the PDF on IRIS (file 9789241549912-eng.pdf, fetched through the IRIS REST API; its MD5 equals the checksum in the IRIS bitstream record). The who.int page lists later WHO updates of individual topics (2020 to 2022); whether any changes recommendation E.7 was not checked.

Recommendations

No recommendation in this atlas names this guideline yet.

Record details

Record id
maternal:guideline-who-2016-anc
Content hash
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