Thematic Guide: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
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Our thematic guide leads you beyond the limits of the Medicus Mundi International Network, highlighting some key entry points without intending to be comprehensive. For Network resources, please refer to our thematic pages on maternal and child health. Any important resources missing? Please let us know.
Starting point
- New emphasis on maternal, newborn and child health
"Focussing on maternal, newborn and child health makes sense from technical, political and human rights perspectives. However, without clarity on future directions, focus and energy could dissipate." Giovanni Putoto, Doctors with Africa Cuamm, in: MMI Network News, January 2011
www.medicusmundi.org
For further resources of the Medicus Mundi International Network, please refer to our thematic pages on child health and safe pregnancy / maternal health.
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in the MDGs
- Millennium Development Goal 4
Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals - Millennium Development Goal 5
A. Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio. B. Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals
Thematic leaders
- Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH)
"The Partnership (PMNCH) joins the reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) communities into an alliance of more than 450 members to ensure that all women, infants and children not only remain healthy, but thrive." The MMI Network is a member of PMNCH since July 2012.
www.who.int/pmnch - WHO: Making Pregnancy Safer
www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer - WHO: Child and Adolescent and Development
www.who.int/child_adolescent_health
Key documents
- Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health
Launched during the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in Sept 2010
www.who.int/pmnch/activities/jointactionplan - Make every mother and child count
The World Health Report, WHO 2005
www.who.int/whr/2005
Key resources
- Essential knowledge for maternal, newborn and child health
"This is a gateway to knowledge resources from the more than 400 partner organizations of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health"
http://portal.pmnch.org/ - Every Woman Every Child
United Nations website promoting the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health
www.everywomaneverychild.org - Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health:
results, resources, oversight
www.who.int/woman_child_accountability
Network events
- MMI Network meeting: Mother and child health - before and past 2015
Brescia, Italy, 28 October 2011
www.bit.ly/mmi-brescia
Papers and positions (2012-13)
2013
- Linking
child survival and child development for health, equity, sustainable
development. Margaret Chan
http://bit.ly/18hOK67 - Childhood
Pneumonia and Diarrhoea. Lancet series, published on 12 April 2013
http://www.thelancet.com/series/childhood-pneumonia-and-diarrhoea - Ending
Preventable Child Deaths from Pneumonia and Diarrhoea by 2025. Integrated
Global Action Plan
http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Final_GAPPD_main_Report-_EN-8_April_2013.pdf - Interventions
to address childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea equitably: what works and at what
cost? ZA Bhutta et al.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2960648-0/abstract - UNICEF/WHO:
New plan to address pneumonia and diarrhoea could save 2 million children a
year
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_68669.html - Global
Newborn Health Conference 2013: Closing presentation
http://prezi.com/svfabwcqmqup/global-newborn-health-conference-2013-closing-presentation - Year 2 of
the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) - PLOS collection on maternal health - 12
new articles added
http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2013/04/17/year-2-mhtf-plos-collection-on-maternal-health-12-new-articles-added/ - New
findings for maternal mortality age patterns: Aggregated results for 38
countries. Ann K. Blanc et al.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0059864 - A call
for accelerated newborn survival: Consultation on Global Newborn Action Plan
http://www.globalnewbornaction.org - Improving
child nutrition: The achievable imperative for global Progress. UNICEF report
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_68661.html - Breastfeeding policy: a globally
comparative Analysis. Jody Heymann et al.
http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/online_first/12-109363.pdf (WHO Bulletin, online first) - Maternal mortality and morbidity: a
human rights imperative. Navanethem Pillay
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2960135-X/fulltext - Implementing
the right of the child to health: Issues raised at 22nd Human Rights Council. M.
Sangiorgio in: HDM, p.21
http://www.ghd-net.org/sites/default/files/HDM%20-%20Vol%204%20Issue%202.pdf - Improving
women’s and children's health and lives: Strengthening women and girls rights.
Ann Svensén
http://bit.ly/Z9Qmqx - Impact of
official development aid on maternal and reproductive health outcomes:
Systematic review. EM Taylor et al.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0056271 - The
economic benefits of investing in women’s and children’s health. PMNCH
Knowledge Summary
http://www.who.int/pmnch/topics/part_publications/knowledge_summary_24_economic_case/en/index.html - Activists
welcome hard-fought UN agreement on women's rights. Liz Ford
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/mar/16/activists-welcome-un-agreeement-womens-rights - Results-based
financing of maternal and newborn health care: Discussing the evidence. GIZ,
March 2013
http://german-practice-collection.org/en/events/expert-forum-results-based-financing-eschborn - More
action needed on baby food marketing. Mike Brady
http://newint.org/blog/2013/03/06/baby-milk-action/ - Emergency
obstetric care in Mali: catastrophic spending & its impoverishing effects
on households. C Arsenault et al.
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/91/3/12-108969-ab/en/index.html - Health-seeking
behaviour of women and the role of traditional birth attendants in Tanzania. C. Pfeiffer / R. Mwaipopo
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2393-13-55.pdf - Rates and
trends in contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning,
1990-2015. Leontine Alkema et al.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2962204-1/abstract - Equitable
and sustainable future of women and girls worldwide. iERG statement on
International Women’s Day
http://www.who.int/woman_child_accountability/ierg/news/ierg_statement_8_march_2013/en/index.html - On
International Women's Day PHM launched a thematic campaign on Gender &
Reproductive Justice
http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/7146 - Women's
health - broadening the remit. The Lancet on International Women's Day
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2960608-X/fulltext -
A manifesto for maternal health post-2015. Ana Langer, Richard Horton, Guerino Chalamilla
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2960259-7/fulltext -
The structural determinants of child well-being. Expert consultation hosted by UNICEF Office of Research, June 2012
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/678 -
Baby health crisis in Indonesia as formula companies push products. Zoe Williams
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/15/babies-health-formula-indonesia-breastfeeding -
Creating a maternal health movement. Mariam Claeson et al.
http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2013/01/Creating-a-Maternal-Health-Movement -
A tipping point for change: saving millions of additional lives in 2013 and beyond. GE Jonathan & J Stoltenberg on MCH
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2960111-7/fulltext -
A need for a moral revolution in maternal health care. Aku Kwamie reflects on http://www.gmhc2013.com
http://e.itg.be/ihp/archives/26-years-on-moral-revolution-maternal-health-care/ -
Addressing inequity to achieve the maternal and child health millennium development goals: looking beyond averages
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/1119 -
Translating coverage gains into health gains for all women and children: The quality care opportunity. WJ Graham et al.
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001368 -
Quality of maternal health care. PLOS collection on maternal health, year 1 (2011-12)
http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info:doi/10.1371/issue.pcol.v07.i16
2012
- How Kenyan girls are using the law to fight back against rape. Liz Ford
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/dec/04/kenyan-girls-law-fight-rape - Women's choice is key to reduce maternal deaths. The Lancet editorial
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2962009-1/fulltext - Hospitals, health centres, maternity clinics - WHO Safe Childbirth
Checklist pilot
http://goo.gl/h9UAW - BORN equal. How reducing inequality could give our children a better
future. Save the Children UK, November 2012
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news-and-comment/news/2012-10/gap-between-rich-and-poorest-widest-nineties - By choice, not by chance: Family planning, human rights and development.
UNFPA State of World Population report 2012
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/ - Born Too Soon: The global action report on preterm birth. WHO 2012
http://bit.ly/SSepIN - Child health: reducing inequities. Editorial
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961742-5/fulltext - Independent Expert Review Group Accountability report for women's and
children's health now available
http://bit.ly/QyI0ch - Strategies to improve health coverage and narrow the equity gap in child
survival, health, and nutrition. Chopra et al.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961423-8/abstract - A wake-up call on contraceptive rates in Africa. John May
http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/2012/10/a-wake-up-call-on-contraceptive-rates-in-africa.php
- Integrating HIV with reproductive, maternal and child health services.
Gavin Yamey
http://bit.ly/RZzSmd - Women's and children's health: no time for complacency. Richard Horton
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961613-4/fulltext - Keeping our promises to women and children: Roadblocks to ending
maternal and child deaths. Carole Presern
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carole-presern/maternal-mortality-rate_b_1904359.html - Analysing progress on commitments to the Global Strategy for Women’s and
Children’s Health. PMNCH 2012 Report
http://www.who.int/pmnch/topics/part_publications/2012_pmnch_report/en/index.html
- Levels and trends in child mortality. UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN
Population Division, September 2012
http://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/documents/levels_trends_child_mortality_2012/en/index.html - Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed – Progress Report 2012.
Unicef, September 2012
http://www.apromiserenewed.org/383.htm - Women, abortion and the new technical and policy guidance from WHO.
Mahmoud F Fathalla and Rebecca J Cook
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/9/12-107144/en/index.html - A "how to" guide for improving maternal and newborn health?
Gary Darmstadt et al. (Gates Foundation)
http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2012/08/A-quotHow-Toquot-Guide-For-Improving-Maternal-and-Newborn-Health - Time is ripe for breakthrough on child mortality. M. Tran. With slides:
tackling child mortality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/aug/28/breakthrough-child-mortality-unicef-official - More than mothers: aligning indicators with women's lives. Stephanie R
Psaki and Funmilola OlaOlorun
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2811%2960757-5/fulltext - Women's Lives, Women's Voices: Empowering women to ensure family
planning coverage, quality and equity. CARE, July 2012
2www.care.org/careswork/whatwedo/health/family-planning.asp - Women’s health beyond reproduction: meeting the challenges. Flavia Bustreo et al.
http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/90/7/12-103549/en/index.html - Will the agenda for child survival survive? Victoria
Fan
http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/2012/06/will-the-agenda-for-child-survival-survive.php - A guide to family planning for community health
workers and their clients. Sarah Johnson et al., WHO 2012
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2012/9789241503754_eng.pdf - Lancet special issue highlights reproductive,
maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH)
http://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2012/20120608_lancet_specialissue/en/index.html - A decade of change for newborn survival. Save the
Children 2012
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=8rKLIXMGIpI4E&b=7942601&ct=11797543 - Building a future for women and children. Countdown to
2015 report. WHO/UNICEF 2012
http://www.countdown2015mnch.org/documents/2012Report/2012Countdown-Report.pdf
- Bending the curve in child survival. Orin Levine
http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/2012/06/bending-the-curve-in-child-survival.php - Every child deserves a 5th birthday. Campaign and
"Child Survival Call to Action" event in Washington, 14/15 June
http://5thbday.usaid.gov/pages/ResponseSub/Event.aspx - Levels & trends in child mortality. Report 2011.
Estimates by UN inter-agency group for child mortality estimation
http://www.childinfo.org/files/Child_Mortality_Report_2011.pdf - Keeping promises for women and children. Carole
Presern et al.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960653-9/fulltext - Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health:
Progress Report 2010-2011. World Health Organization, May 2012
http://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/documents/progress_report_201011/en/index.html
- Accelerating the global response to reduce maternal
mortality. Tore Godal and Lois Quam
http://www.lancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960863-0/fulltext - Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2010, UNFPA
http://bit.ly/KfQFZg - Global, regional, and national causes of child
mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010. Liu et al.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960560-1/fulltext#
- The global health financing revolution: why maternal health is missing
the boat. G. Ooms et al.
http://www.fvvo.be/assets/229/03-Ooms_et_al.pdf - U.N. SG Ban speaks about need for reproductive health care for young
people and releases UNFPA report. KFF Daily
http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2012/April/24/GH-042412-UN-Reproductive-Health.aspx - Progress in child well-being: Building on what works. ODI / Save the
Children / UNICEF 2012
http://resourcecentre.savethechildren.se/content/library/documents/progress-child-well-being-building-what-works-0 - ‘How to know what you need to do’: a cross-country comparison of
maternal health guidelines. Ulrika Baker et al.
http://www.implementationscience.com/content/7/1/31/abstract - Uganda: Pregnancy and childbirth mean playing Russian roulette with
women's lives Jessica Mack
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/04/02/uganda-womens-rights-maternal-health-fall-to-back-line-once-again - Family planning: Making the fundamental human right a reality. Babatunde
Osotimehin
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-babatunde-osotimehin/international-contraception-debate_b_1412134.html - UK Government, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announce Family
Planning Summit to take place in London in July 2012
http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/news/pid/10222 - Accountability for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival: An update on
progress in priority countries. WHO 2012
http://www.who.int/pmnch/topics/part_publications/201203_accountability_for_mncsurvival.pdf - Equity in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions: Review of
survey data from 54 countries. AJD Barros et al.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960113-5/abstract - Disparities in interventions for child and maternal mortality. Robert L
Goldenberg and Elizabeth M McClure
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960474-7/fulltext - Call to submit documentation for good practice/obstacles for achieving
accountability in women’s and children’s health
http://www.who.int/woman_child_accountability/ierg/reports/call_evidence/en/index.html - A promise to keep: campaign "designed to renew and re-energize the
commitment to end preventable child deaths"
http://www.who.int/pmnch/media/press_materials/pr/2012/20120313_promise_to_keep/en/index.html - Integrated social protection systems: Enhancing equity for children.
Natalia Winder and Jenn Yablonski, UNICEF 2012
http://www.unicef.org/socialprotection/framework/ - Committee on the Rights of the Child: Governments to improve exclusive
breastfeeding and enforce the International Code
http://breastfeedingandhr.blogspot.com/2012/03/59th-crc-committee-governments-to.html - Health Metrics Network and World Health Organization welcome UNHRC birth registration resolution http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2012/HMN_birth_registration/en/index.html
- Why are children missing from WHO targets on non-infectious diseases? Sarah Boseley
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2012/mar/19/children-cancer - Maternal death: The avoidable crisis. Médecins Sans Frontières, March 2012
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/article.cfm?id=5809&cat=special-report - World Bank must re-evaluate its strategies to cut maternal mortality.
Elizabeth Arend
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/mar/06/world-bank-strategy-maternal-health - Review: Models of delivery for improving maternal and infant health for
poor people in urban areas. Coast et al. 2012
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/PDF/Outputs/SystematicReviews/Health_outcomes_2012Coast_report.pdf - The State of the World's Children 2012: Many children in an urban world
lack access to schools, health care, sanitation
http://www.unicef.org/sowc/index_61804.html - Donor policies fail to bring real and sustained change for women. Andrea
Cornwall
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/mar/05/women-route-to-empowerment-not-mapped-out - International Women’s Day: a woman's and a man's (re)view:
Jocalyn Clark http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2012/03/08/happy-international-womens-day-two-steps-forward-one-step-back
Tom Paulson http://humanosphere.kplu.org/2012/03/top-ten-on-womens-day/ - Positioning women's and children's
health in African Union policy-making: A policy analysis. Kadidiatou Toure et
al.
www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/8/1/3/abstract - New Norwegian-led research project to
identify economic benefits of investing in women’s health. PMNCH media release
www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2012/20120215_norway_researchproject/en/index.html - A life free from hunger: Tackling child
malnutrition. Save the Children report
http://everyone.org/report-on-child-malnutrition/ - Stop saying the solutions for child
health and malnutrition are so simple. Karen Grepin on "A Life Free from
Hunger"
http://karengrepin.com/2012/02/stop-saying-the-solutions-are-so-simple.html - Understanding the Girl Effect. Jill
Sheffield
www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2012/02/Understanding-the-Girl-Effect - Will the 'girl effect' really help to
combat poverty? Ofra Koffman on empowering girls and delaying childbearing
www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/feb/10/will-girl-effect-combat-poverty - WHO and partners are launching a new
website on results, resources and oversight related to reproductive, maternal,
newborn and child health
www.bit.ly/xwCxmR - Maternal mortality and human rights:
landmark decision by UN human rights body. J Bueno de Mesquita & E Kismödi
www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/2/11-101410/en/index.html - Economic growth and women’s health
outcomes: A deepening divide? ShareJayati Ghosh
www.globalhealthcheck.org/?p=531 - From population control to human rights.
Women’s health activist Adrienne Germain talks to Sarah Cumberland
www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/2/12-040212/en/index.html - Global health and population. K.
Donnelly recalls that child survival is essential to stabilizing global
population
www.path.org/blog/2012/02/global-health-and-population - Operationalising sexual &
reproductive health & rights in Subsaharan Africa: constraints, dilemmas,
strategies. RN Oronje et al.
www.biomedcentral.com/1472-698X/11/S3/S8
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