Every Newborn: Who has been caring for the baby?
2014
This is the first of five articles published in the Lancet Every Newborn Series. This article assesses the progress made in the last decade on the integration of newborn care across the continuum of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health.
This is the first of five articles published in the Lancet Every Newborn Series. This article assesses the progress made in the last decade on the integration of newborn care across the continuum of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health. The authors evaluate progress in the areas of agenda setting, formulation and adoption of policy, leadership and partnership, implementation, and the evaluation of results.Assessment of progress:
- Agenda setting - substantial progress
- Policy formulation - substantial progress e.g. shift from MCH (maternal & child health) to MNCH (maternal, newborn & child health)
- Investment and implementation - poor progress, especially given the burden and opportunity for rapid change
- most effective interventions need to be clearly communicated
- ways to solve bottlenecks for scale-up need to be clearly communicated
- national leadership and technical capacity for inteventions
- technical assistance and funding to be globally coordinated within countries
- greater domestic investment in newborn health
- improved access to supplies and commodities
- improved data to monitor progress and use of data for improving programmes
- accountability for results at every level, from communties to mortality targets in post-MDG agenda
Darmstadt, G. L., Kinney, M.V., Chopra, M., Cousens, S., Kak,L., Paul,V.K., Martines, J., Bhutta, Z.A., & Lawn, J.E. for The Lancet Every Newborn Study Group. (2014). Who has been caring for the baby? The Lancet, published online 20 May .
