ReviewReproductive health2014
Essential childbirth and postnatal interventions for improved maternal and neonatal health.
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- A Systematic Review of Methods and Practice for Integrating Maternal, Fetal, and Child Health Outcomes, and Family Spillover Effects into Cost-Utility Analyses.PharmacoEconomics · 2024Pooled it
- Essential components of postnatal care - a systematic literature review and development of signal functions to guide monitoring and evaluation.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Pooled it
- Evaluating implementation strategies for essential newborn care interventions in low- and low middle-income countries: a systematic review.Health policy and planning · 2020Pooled it
- Outcomes of a Coaching-Based WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program in India.The New England journal of medicine · 2017Trial
- Postnatal care services utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa countries: a scoping review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Neonatal mortality following referral from peripheral facilities to Kanifing General Hospital, The Gambia (2022-2024): a survival analysis approach.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
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- A predictive model of inadequate minimum dietary diversity among women with a child under 24 months in ethiopia: a machine learning approach using the 2016 EDHS.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- Prevalence and determinants of adequate postnatal care in Ethiopia: evidence from 2019 Ethiopia mini demographic and health survey.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Beyond Being Insured: Insurance Coverage Denial as a Major Barrier to Accessing Care During Pregnancy and Postpartum.Clinical nursing research · 2023Article
- Measures to assess quality of postnatal care: A scoping review.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- The PRECISE-DYAD Neurodevelopmental substudy protocol: neurodevelopmental risk in children of mothers with pregnancy complications.Wellcome open research · 2023Article
- Investigating Health Inequality Using Trend, Decomposition and Spatial Analyses: A Study of Maternal Health Service Use in Nepal.International journal of public health · 2023Article
- Estimates of Stillbirths, Neonatal Mortality, and Medically Vulnerable Live Births in Amhara, Ethiopia.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Scoping review of maternal and newborn health interventions and programmes in Nigeria.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Is an Important Therapeutic Factor in Mesenchymal Stem Cell Secretions for Treatment of Traumatic Peripheral Pelvic Injuries.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Article
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- The delivery of essential newborn care in conflict settings: A systematic review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
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Abstract
Childbirth and the postnatal period, spanning from right after birth to the following several weeks, presents a time in which the number of deaths reported still remain alarmingly high. Worldwide, about 800 women die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications daily while almost 75% of neonatal deaths occur within the first seven days of delivery and a vast majority of these occur in the first 24 hours. Unfortunately, this alarming trend of mortality persists, as 287,000 women lost their lives to pregnancy and childbirth related causes in 2010. Almost all of these deaths were preventable and occurred in low-resource settings, pointing towards dearth of adequate facilities in these parts of the world. The main objective of this paper is to review the evidence based childbirth and post natal interventions which have a beneficial impact on maternal and newborn outcomes. It is a compilation of existing, new and updated interventions designed to help physicians and policy makers and enable them to reduce the burden of maternal and neonatal morbidities and mortalities. Interventions during the post natal period that were found to be associated with a decrease in maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality included: advice and support of family planning, support and promotion of early initiation and continued breastfeeding; thermal care or kangaroo mother care for preterm and/or low birth weight babies; hygienic care of umbilical cord and skin following delivery, training health personnel in basic neonatal resuscitation; and postnatal visits. Adequate delivery of these interventions is likely to bring an unprecedented decrease in the number of deaths reported during childbirth.
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