Policy opportunities for neonatal health include the new national Health Sector Strategic Plan which now prioritises newborn health including use of a community model through Village Health Teams. the aim of the present study is to adapt, develop and cost an integrated maternal-newborn care package...
swapping payments for capital and/or interest for local mental health investments. When it comes to global development priorities, mental health is poised to take the central stage previously occupied by the fight against AIDS and the push to improve maternal and child ...
It is hoped that such a learning system will lead to improvements in maternity care and the health of pregnant women. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently launched their global technical guidelines on maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) with operational ...
Inequity in maternal-child health services is a challenge to global health as it hinders the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Universal Health Coverage. Though the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has made remarkable
International Day of the Midwife 2012 The article describes the various events organised across New Zealand for International Day of the Midwife on 5 May 2012. The day aims to raise awareness of midwifery and help midwives lobby for policy changes related to maternal, newbor... R Dabrowski -...
A nurse communicates with a patient at the emergency department of a hospital in Binzhou City, east China's Shandong Province, May 12, 2024. Sunday marked the 113th International Nurses Day. (Photo by Chu Baorui/Xinhua) A nurse works at a maternal and child health care hospital in Huai'an...
The release of the State of the World’s Midwifery Report (SoWMy) coincided with the International Midwives’ Day celebrations on May 5, 2021. The report featured information from 194 nations on the workforce in the fields of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health (S....
Erratum to "Maternal, neonatal and child health interventions and services: moving from knowledge of what works to systems that deliver" [International Health 2 (2010) 87–98] D, Matthias B, Campbell OM, Wolfe R, Prost A, Hill Z, Costello A, Azad K, Mwansambo C, Manandhar DS: Maternal...
"Namibia prioritizes maternal and newborn health. Notwithstanding some challenges, the successes of the past years are commendable and we applaud the midwives for a job well-done in saving the lives of mothers and their newborn babies," he concluded. ...
PM.63International Volunteering to Promote Maternal and Newborn Health: Optimising ImpactThis paper presents the results of an interim evaluation of an initiative funded by the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET) and hosted by the ... L Ackers,K Macleod,E Lewis,... - Archives of Disease ...