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Welcome to the maternal health component of the WHO maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (MNCAH) e-handbook. This essential resource provides comprehensive guidance to improve maternal health globally. Addressing the alarming 295 000 annual maternal deaths from preventable complications, the e-handbook highlights cost-effective interventions such as antenatal care, skilled birth ...
To help address this, WHO developed Early Essential Newborn Care (EENC) – a set of simple, cost-effective interventions proven to save newborn lives. One important part of EENC is immediate and prolonged skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby.
Newborn deaths account for 47% of deaths among children under the age of 5 globally, resulting in 2.4 million lives lost each year. About one third of newborn deaths occur on the day of birth and close to three quarters occur within the first week of life. In addition, almost 2 million babies born with no signs of life at 28 weeks of pregnancy or more (stillbirths) and 295 000 maternal deaths ...
A newborn infant, or neonate, refers to a baby in the first 28 days of life, a period marked by the highest risk of morbidity and mortality. Enhancing neonatal survival and health and preventing avoidable deaths and stillbirths requires achieving high coverage of quality antenatal care, skilled birth attendance, and postnatal care for both ...
Newborn health and the European Programme of Work 2020–2025 (EPW) Improving newborn health is one of WHO’s key priorities, and part of the third core priority of WHO/Europe’s EPW. People place great value on living in safe and supportive communities where they can lead healthy lives.