Monitoring maternal and newborn health outcomes globally: a brief history of key events and initiatives

Ann-Beth Moller ¹, Jane H Patten ², Claudia Hanson ³, Alison Morgan ⁴, Lale Say ¹, Theresa Diaz ⁵, Allisyn C Moran ⁵

Moller et al. provide a history of maternal and newborn health outcome monitoring, documenting global key events and initiatives over recent decades that show how maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity, and stillbirths, have been viewed, when they have achieved higher priority on the global agenda, and how they have been measured, monitored and reported.

• Metrics & Measurement