Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood

This volume offers a clear, multidisciplinary, essential overview of maternal health throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Covering essential and emerging topics—from nutrition, infection, haematological disorders, and biochemistry to the maternal microbiome and the role of biomedical engineering, it highlights both core principles and areas sometimes overlooked such as maternal health in the context of physical disabilities and antibiotic use in pregnancy. Enhanced by figures and tables and enriched by a blend of international perspectives with primary data gathered from African healthcare providers through targeted online questionnaires, the book offers an accessible yet rigorous resource for clinicians, researchers, and public health professionals, in particular for those in developing countries.