Knowledge Summary 25: Integrating immunization and other services for women and children [PDF]
The Expanded Programme on Immunizations (EPI) has dramatically decreased childhood morbidity and mortality since its introduction in 1974, and now reaches over 85% of the world’s children.
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health +2 more
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Generating insights from trends in newborn care practices from prospective population-based studies: examples from India, Bangladesh and Nepal [PDF]
Background Delivery of essential newborn care is key to reducing neonatal mortality rates, yet coverage of protective birth practices remains incomplete and variable, with or without skilled attendance.
Prasanta Tripathy +41 more
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A qualitative study exploring newborn care behaviours after home births in rural Ethiopia: implications for adoption of essential interventions for saving newborn lives. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Ethiopia is among seven high-mortality countries which have achieved the fourth millennium development goal with over two-thirds reduction in under-five mortality rate.
Filteau, Suzanne +5 more
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Effect of home-based counselling on newborn care practices in southern Tanzania one year after implementation : a cluster-randomised controlled trial [PDF]
In Sub-Saharan Africa over one million newborns die annually. We developed a sustainable and scalable home-based counselling intervention for delivery by community volunteers in rural southern Tanzania to improve newborn care practices and survival. Here
Schellenberg, David +25 more
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Survival of neonates in rural Southern Tanzania: does place of delivery or continuum of care matter? [PDF]
\ud The concept of continuum of care has recently been highlighted as a core principle of maternal, newborn and child health initiatives, and as a means to save lives.
Mwanyangala, Mathew Alexander +5 more
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Roles and responsibilities in newborn care in four African sites. [PDF]
Objectives. To explore roles and responsibilities in newborn care in the intra- and postpartum period in Nigeria, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Methods.
Adejuyigbe, E +9 more
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Newborn conditions according to planned mode of delivery.
Newborn conditions according to planned mode of delivery.
Clémentine Pierre (11587197) +8 more
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The Effect of Mode of Delivery on Newborn Hearing Screening Results [PDF]
Objective: Congenital hearing loss is one of the most important public health problems with a frequency of about 1-6 per 1000 live births all over the world.
Selis Gülseven Güven +1 more
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Distance to care, facility delivery and early neonatal mortality in Malawi and Zambia. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Globally, approximately 3 million babies die annually within their first month. Access to adequate care at birth is needed to reduce newborn as well as maternal deaths.
Campbell, Oona MR +13 more
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A Large Cross-Sectional Community-Based Study of Newborn Care Practices in Southern Tanzania [PDF]
Despite recent improvements in child survival in sub-Saharan Africa, neonatal mortality rates remain largely unchanged. This study aimed to determine the frequency of delivery and newborn-care practices in southern Tanzania, where neonatal mortality is ...
Schellenberg, David +41 more
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