Overcoming blame culture: key strategies to catalyse maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
• ² Maternal Newborn Health Group, Maternal Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ³ Maternal Newborn Health Group, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ⁴ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁵ UNFPA, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• ⁶ Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, Solna, Clinical Epidemiology Division, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁸ Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁹ Midwifery Science, AVAG (Academy Midwifery Amsterdam and Groningen), Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹¹ Options Consultancy Services Ltd, St Magnus House, London, UK.
• ¹² Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
• ¹³ Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health & Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.