{"id":333,"date":"2014-11-29T04:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T04:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/?p=333"},"modified":"2014-11-29T04:25:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T04:25:51","slug":"a-new-way-to-combat-maternal-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/2014\/11\/29\/a-new-way-to-combat-maternal-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A New Way to Combat Maternal Mortality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRONTO (a Spanish acronym for &#8220;Obstetric and Neonatal Training Program&#8221;) is a simulation-based training program in Emergency Obstetrics supported by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. The basis for this training program is that healthcare workers in poor regions often do not get to practice for life-threatening emergencies. Read the following article for an example from Guatemala&#8217;s geographical &#8220;Corridor of Death&#8221;, where maternal mortality is triple the national average: http:\/\/www.impatientoptimists.org\/Posts\/2013\/01\/Combating-the-Daily-Tragedy-of-Maternal-Mortality-in-Guatemalas-quotCorridor-of-Deathquot.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you think these simulations can lead to correct responses in actual life-threatening emergencies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRONTO (a Spanish acronym for &#8220;Obstetric and Neonatal Training Program&#8221;) is a simulation-based training program in Emergency Obstetrics supported by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. The basis for this training program is that healthcare workers in poor regions often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/2014\/11\/29\/a-new-way-to-combat-maternal-mortality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/birthglobalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}