A Literature Review of Maternal Mortality in the Countryside. What are the Policies and Prevention?

Maternal mortality in rural areas is still high and is a health problem that is a priority for intervention and policy. Various studies have been conducted to create a prevention model and various policies implemented in several countries have been carried out to deal with maternal mortality in rural areas. This study aims to determine the policies and models or concepts of preventing maternal mortality in rural areas. This study is a literature review using the Scopus database.  The strategy in finding articles uses PICOS (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome and Study design). 6 articles that fit the criteria and are relevant to the research objectives. Policy and prevention of maternal mortality in rural areas: (1) Fulfillment of health workers, (2) Fulfillment of health facilities, (3) Maternity waiting homes, (4) Community-based continuous training programmes, (5) HEP (Health Extension Program) and HDA (Health Development Army) policies, (6) Health Insurance. The findings of this study indicate that some of the policies and prevention models implemented were successful in reducing maternal mortality in rural areas, so policies and models for preventing maternal mortality can be applied in rural areas.