International Day of the Midwife
5 May 2024
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International Day of the Midwife
5 May 2024
Midwives perform a vital service in providing care and support to women and their families while pregnant, throughout labour and during the period after a baby’s birth.
On this day, we celebrate the role of midwives across the WHO European Region, recognizing in particular the importance of educating, training, regulating and licensing midwives to improve quality of care and to reduce maternal and newborn mortality.
We also showcase WHO/Europe’s work in raising levels of midwifery education in the Region; creating evidence-based knowledge on midwifery; and influencing national policies that will lead to the provision of high-quality, accessible, equitable, efficient and sensitive health services.
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1 November 2023
Technical brief on strengthening the nursing and midwifery workforce to improve health outcomes: what...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, policy-makers and the wider public recognized the important contribution nurses made to the fight against the pandemic and...
15 September 2022
Technical brief on strengthening the nursing and midwifery workforce to improve health outcomes: Government...
Recognizing the critical contribution of the nursing and midwifery professions to health systems, population health and efforts to achieve the Sustainable...
14 September 2022
Health and care workforce in Europe: time to act
All countries of the WHO European Region currently face severe challenges related to the health and care workforce (HCWF). This report focuses...
7 December 2021
Building better together
Nurses and midwives comprise half of the professional health workforce globally, interact with people from birth to death across all types of settings...
19 October 2020
Midwifery Assessment Tool for Education (MATE)
The Midwifery Assessment Tool for Education (MATE) was commissioned by the WHO Regional Office for Europe technical programme Human Resources...
1 October 2017
Facilitating evidence-based practice in nursing and midwifery in the WHO European Region
Facilitating evidence-based practice in nursing and midwifery in the WHO European Region is a guide for Member States, supported by the WHO Regional...