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Newborn health - World Health Organization (WHO)
To ensure every child survives and thrives to reach their full potential, we must focus on improving care around the time of birth and the first week of life. The high rates of preventable death and poor health and well-being of newborns and children under the age of five are indicators of the uneven coverage of life-saving interventions and, more broadly, of inadequate social and economic ...
Newborn mortality - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO fact sheet on newborn mortality, including key facts, causes, priority strategies, newborn care and WHO response.
Essential newborn care - World Health Organization (WHO)
This course is part of a set of resources for improving care of newborns, such as WHO Human Resource Strategies for improving neonatal care, WHO standards for improving the quality of care for maternal and newborn health, small and sick newborns in health facilities.
Newborn health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Accelerating progress on neonatal survival and infant health and well-being requires strengthening quality of care as well as ensuring availability of quality health services for small and sick newborns. Essential newborn care All babies should receive the following care:
Neonatal mortality - UNICEF DATA
The first 28 days of life – the neonatal period – is the most vulnerable time for a child’s survival. Children face the highest risk of dying in their first month of life at an average global rate of 17 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2023, down by 53 per cent from 37 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990. In comparison, the probability of dying after the first month and before reaching ...
WHO recommendations for management of serious bacterial infections in ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed guidelines for the management of infants aged 0-59 days with serious bacterial infections (sepsis, meningitis, and pneumonia) in hospital and also outside hospital if referral is not possible. The guidelines now include recommendations on diagnosis as well as first line empiric antibiotic treatment of the most critically ill infants aged 0-59 ...
Levels & Trends in Report 2023 Child Mortality - UNICEF DATA
Reducing neonatal mortality requires investing in care around the time of birth provided by skilled health personnel, essential newborn care and care for small and sick newborns.
Newborn care - UNICEF DATA
Death in the first month of life, which is mostly preventable, represents 47 per cent of total deaths among children under 5 in 2022. While mortality among children under 5 declines globally, deaths among these children are becoming more concentrated in the first days of life. This makes the focus on newborn care more critical than ever. In 2022, an estimated 2.3 million children died in their ...
Newborn infections - World Health Organization (WHO)
Newborn infections Neonatal infections are primarily bacterial in origin, and include pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis. Neonatal infections result in over 550 000 neonatal deaths every year. Most of these deaths can be averted by preventive measures, early diagnosis, timely care-seeking, treatment with appropriate antibiotics, and follow up.
Maternal and Newborn Health Disparities Philippines
Neonatal mortality rate: Philippines’s neonatal mortality rate (NMR)^ is 13 deaths per 1,000 live births.3 NMR in rural areas is 18 deaths per 1,000 live births and 9 deaths per 1,000 live births in urban areas for an urban-to-rural ratio of 0.5.2 NMR among the poorest households is 19 neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to 9 deaths per 1,000 live births among the richest ...
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