Integrated person-centered health care for all women during pregnancy: implementing World Health Organization recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience.

The 2016 WHO guideline on routine antenatal care (ANC) recommends several health systems interventions to improve quality of care and increase use of services including: Midwife-led continuity of care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods Task shifting components of ANC, including promotion of health-related behaviors and distribution of nutrition supplements Recruitment and retention of health workers in rural and remote areas Community mobilization to improve communication and support to pregnant women Women-held case notes A model with a minimum of 8 antenatal care contacts