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Please visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a>\u00a0page and download the Excel spreadsheet to explore the data further.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"Opportunities for ANC\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The prioritization of specific ANC interventions should vary by setting. For example, in areas of high malaria risk, intermittent presumptive treatment and use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets are very important. How we reach pregnant women with services and messages must also vary by setting. There are certainly advantages to having fully-qualified health professionals like nurses or nurse-midwives provide services; however many aspects of the needed services could be provided by cadres of health auxiliaries with less training. In some settings, greater reach is achieved by providing services on an outreach basis. Over the past 15 years, the standard model for ANC has been \u201cfocused ANC,\u201d a four-visit schedule. In 2016 the World Health Organization reviewed this model and issued new recommendations.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=\"Key Resources\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/news-item\/updated-who-recommendations-for-malaria-chemoprevention-among-children-and-pregnant-women-who\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updated WHO recommendations for malaria chemoprevention among children and pregnant women<\/a> (2022)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/ending-preventable-maternal-mortality-epmm-a-renewed-focus-for-improving-maternal-and-newborn-health-and-wellbeing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM): A Renewed Focus for Improving Maternal and Newborn Health and Wellbeing<\/a> (2021)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/recommendations-antenatal-care-positive-pregnancy-experience\/\">WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience<\/a> (2016) + Executive Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","post_title":"Antenatal care","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"antenatal-care","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-02 12:32:20","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-02 16:32:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&p=114","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":117,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2015-10-21 15:17:43","post_date_gmt":"2015-10-21 15:17:43","post_content":"<p>[vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1453403441710{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Within the continuum of care, childbirth care is provided during labor and delivery. Interventions include skilled care at birth, basic and comprehensive obstetric care, and management of preterm births.<\/h2>\n<p>It is important that the childbirth care interventions for mother and newborn are seen as a functional unit delivered in a narrow time window by the same healthcare provider (or team) and in the same place, with referral for management of complications including mother and baby together.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" el_class=\"issue-stats\"][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-red\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">1.3<\/span>m<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1666029713081{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of intrapartum stillbirths globally in 2015<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-yellow\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">66<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1690994883939{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">percent of births attended by a skilled health professional in least developed countries (2016-2023)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-blue\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">18<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1690994111505{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">percent of cesarean section deliveries globally (2016 - 2021)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>All data on this page represents the most recent data available, unless otherwise noted. Please visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a>\u00a0page and download the Excel spreadsheet to explore the data further.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"More information\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The interaction between skilled healthcare workers and mothers before, during, and just after labor is critical for saving lives and ensuring good, healthy birth outcomes. Best practices include ensuring mothers are involved in the decision-making (including where they will give birth) and are provided with supportive care at all stages and that the birth proceeds without intervention as long as labor progresses normally and the woman and baby are well. When complications arise, health workers must be ready to respond appropriately.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=\"Key resources\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/sowmy\">State of the World\u2019s Midwifery Report<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/MCPC-2nd-ed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<\/a>(2021)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/MCPC-2nd-ed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WHO guidelines Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth: A guide for midwives and doctors\u00a0<\/a>(2017)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/every-newborn-action-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Newborn Action Plan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/tools\/essential-newborn-care-training-course\">Essential Newborn Care Course<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 interim version of the second edition (2022)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/blog\/ending-preventable-stillbirths-requires-improving-quality-of-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ending Preventable Stillbirths requires improving quality of care<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","post_title":"Childbirth care","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"childbirth-care","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-02 12:48:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-02 16:48:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&p=117","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":120,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2015-10-21 15:18:23","post_date_gmt":"2015-10-21 15:18:23","post_content":"[vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1453403441710{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h2>Information on the number, timing, and causes of stillbirth and neonatal death, as well as the care received by each mother and baby, is crucial for planning and delivering high-quality health services.<\/h2>\r\nWhile data availability and quality have improved in recent years, there are still big gaps in indicators for newborn care. The Every Newborn Action Plan Measurement Improvement Roadmap details the challenges in measurement and provides a multi-year, multi-partner pathway to improving metrics, including testing and standardizing indicator definitions and developing new tools.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" el_class=\"issue-stats\"][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-red\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">71\r\n<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1513274052338{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">percentage of newborn deaths that are preventable with access to quality health care\r\n<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-yellow\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">1<\/span>\/<span class=\"ticker\">3<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1517246179677{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">babies do not have a birth certificate by their first\u00a0birthday<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-blue\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">10<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1456360643415{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of priority Every Newborn indicators identified<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner][vc_separator][vc_column_text]\r\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>All data on this page represents the most recent data available, unless otherwise noted. Please visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a>\u00a0page and download the Excel spreadsheet to explore the data further.<\/em><\/h6>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"More information\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a> for more newborn health specific epidemiology including rates, trends, and causes of death.\r\n\r\nEpidemiology is the \u201cstudy of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems.\u201d Epidemiology examines how health conditions are distributed among a population and seeks to understand the risks or causes associated with those conditions.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The numbers of stillbirths and neonatal deaths, and the causes, are generated through modeled estimates using information from national civil registration databases, household surveys, surveillance systems, and special studies. High-quality, universal birth and death registration are required to provide nationally representative, timely data, and to signify a shift in social norms to value counting every newborn baby and stillbirth. Increasing global momentum to improve the data is important, and highlights the human face of those who are counted the least\u2014newborn babies and stillbirths.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=\"Key resources\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/Every-Newborn-Metrics-Cards_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Newborn Metrics Report Cards<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/supplements\/volume-15-supplement-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Count every newborn, a measurement improvement roadmap for coverage data<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/series\/everynewborn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lancet Every Newborn Series (2014)<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/every-newborn-action-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Every Newborn Action Plan<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/184225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The WHO Technical consultation on newborn health indicators<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/153544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality (EPMM)<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthdatacollaborative.org\/fileadmin\/uploads\/hdc\/Documents\/the-roadmap-for-health-measurement-and-accountability.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Roadmap for Health Measurement and Accountability<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/teams\/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-health-and-ageing\/epidemiology-monitoring-and-evaluation\/maternal-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO 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