tailieunhanh - The Maternal–Newborn–Child Health Continuum of Care: A Collective Effort to Save Lives

Water-related diseases continue to posemajor threats to children’s survival and well-being inmany places in the developing article develops a theoretical perspective on the ways in which children’s vulnerability to water-related disease hazard is produced within the everyday circumstances of livelihood and child care. Central to this analysis is the role that household resources play in mediating or shaping particular microenvironments of health risk. Further, the effects of local geographies of gender on how household resources are accessed and on how child care is structured are examined. Children’s vulnerability is evaluated in a community in the District of Gilgit in northern Pakistan, a region presently undergoing. | PRB Save the Childrens POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU Policy Perspectives on Newborn Health March 2006 SAVING NEWBORN LIVES The Maternal-Newborn-Child Health Continuum of Care A Collective Effort to Save Lives By Erin Sines Anne Tinker and Julia Ruben Each year millions of women newborns and children die from preventable causes. While the interventions that could save their lives are widely known they are often not available to those most in need. A look at the statistics worldwide shows that each year More than 60 million women deliver at home without skilled About 530 000 women die from pregnancy-related complications with some 68 000 of those deaths resulting from unsafe About 4 million babies die within the first month of life the newborn period and more than 3 million die as Over 10 million children under the age of 5 Moreover nearly all 99 percent maternal newborn and child deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. A continuum of care could meet these challenges and improve the health and survival of women newborns and children worldwide. There are two dimensions of the continuum of care - the maternal newborn child health MNCH continuum of care and the household to hospital continuum of care HHCC . The goal of the HHCC approach is to ensure availability and access to quality maternal and newborn care that is provided in a seamless continuum that spans the home community health center and This brief focuses on the former the MNCH continuum of care. The concept of an MNCH continuum of care is based on the assumption that the health and well-being of women newborns and children are closely linked and should be managed in a unified way. This model calls for availability and access to essential health and reproductive services a for women from adolescence through pregnancy delivery and beyond and b for newborns into childhood young adulthood and beyond because a healthy start can lead to a healthier and more