10
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Advancing the newborn and stillbirth global agenda: priorities for the next decade.

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Remarkable advances have been made over the past decade in defining the burden of newborn mortality and morbidity and stillbirths, and in identifying interventions to address the major risk factors and causes of deaths. However, progress in saving newborn lives and preventing stillbirths in countries lags behind that for maternal mortality and for children aged 1-59 months. To accelerate progress, greater focus is needed on improving coverage, quality and equity of care at birth-particularly obstetric care during labour and childbirth, and care for small and sick newborns, which gives a triple return on investment, reducing maternal and newborn lives as well as stillbirths. Securing national-level political priority for newborn health and survival and stillbirths, and implementation of the Every Newborn Action Plan are critical to accomplishing the unfinished global agenda for newborns and stillbirths beyond 2015.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          Arch. Dis. Child.
          Archives of disease in childhood
          BMJ
          1468-2044
          0003-9888
          Feb 2015
          : 100 Suppl 1
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Global Development Division, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, USA.
          [2 ] American University, Washington, DC, USA.
          [3 ] MARCH Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
          Article
          archdischild-2013-305557
          10.1136/archdischild-2013-305557
          25613960
          8dd79063-4afd-48fe-b9c5-d3e80f8f0c05
          History

          Comm Child Health,Neonatology,Tropical Paediatrics
          Comm Child Health, Neonatology, Tropical Paediatrics

          Comments

          Comment on this article