Abstract:Background: Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness is a strategy to enhance the timely use of skilled maternal and neonatal care, especially during childbirth, based on the theory that preparing for childbirth and readiness for complications reduces delays in obtaining this care and reducing possible pregnancy risk. Sustainable Development Goal 3 has as one of its targets to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 births, with no country having a maternal mortality r… Show more
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