Source: World Health Organization UNICEF
Date: January 1, 2014
The Every Newborn Action Plan, published in 2014, sets out a vision of a world in which there are no preventable deaths of newborns or stillbirths, where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth celebrated and women, babies and children survive, thrive and reach their full potential.
Source: The Demographic and Health Surveys Program
The SPA Survey is a health facility assessment that provides a comprehensive overview of a country’s health service delivery. SPA surveys collect information on the overall availability of different facility-based…
Source: The Demographic and Health Surveys Program
Date: May 1, 2014
This survey can be used as a tool to search a Publication Catalog for any references and resources in different topic areas, type of publication, country, keywords, language, published from, and publication ID.
Source: The Lancet
Date: October 15, 2014
Antenatal corticosteroids for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth are among the most effective hospital-based interventions to reduce neonatal mortality. We aimed to assess the feasibility, effectiveness, and safety of a multifaceted intervention designed to increase the use of antenatal corticosteroids at all levels of health care in low-income and middle-income countries.
Source: World Health Organization
Date: January 1, 2015
The EPMM MMR targets include an average global target and supplemental national MMR reductions targets. SDG 3.1 is based on the EPMM average global target.
Source: World Health Organization
Date: January 1, 2015
In 2015, the World Health Organization launched Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results (MoNITOR), a technical advisory group to WHO. The vision of MoNITOR is to facilitate measurement, align initiatives, and provide technical guidance to WHO. MoNITOR will support WHO to ensure harmonized guidance, messages, and tools so that countries can collect useful data to track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Source: The Lancet
Date: August 24, 2015
In this article, the authors comment on WHO’s 2015 recommendations on interventions to improve preterm newborn outcomes.
Source: Human Reproduction Programme World Health Organization
Date: November 1, 2015
The primary audience for this guideline includes health-care professionals who are responsible for developing national and local health-care protocols and policies, as well as managers of maternal and child health programmes and policy-makers in all settings. The guideline will also be useful to those directly providing care to pregnant women and preterm infants, such as obstetricians, paediatricians, midwives, nurses and general practitioners. The information in this guideline will be useful for developing job aids and tools for pre- and in-service training of health workers to enhance their delivery of maternal and neonatal care relating to preterm birth.
Source: World Health Organization
Date: January 1, 2016
This framework is for improving the quality of care for mothers and newborns around the time of childbirth, developed by WHO and released in 2016, encompasses both the provision and experience of care. It contains eight domains of quality of care that should be assessed, improved and monitored within the context of the health system building blocks.
Source: World Health Organization
Date: January 1, 2016
This report presents the indicator and monitoring framework for the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, (2016-2030) focusing on its Survive, Thrive and Transform objectives and 17 targets. The report details the selection process for the indicators and implications for monitoring, measurement, investments and reporting.
Source: World Health Organization United States Agency for Development BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Date: August 26, 2016
A common monitoring framework for ending preventable maternal mortality was developed in two phases based on a series of multi-stakeholder consultations. Phase I focused on indicators related to the proximal causes of maternal mortality and includes 12 recommended indicators and four priority areas for further indicator development and testing.
Source: World Health Organization
Date: May 3, 2017
This comprehensive WHO guideline (2016) provides global, evidence-informed recommendations on routine antenatal care.This guideline covers recommendations in various areas including nutrition, maternal and fetal assessment, preventative measures, interventions for common physiological symptoms and interventions to improve antenatal care utilization and quality of care.
