Global WHO Efforts in Essential Newborn Care: Quality, Access,Innovation

Introduction

Ensuring high-quality universal newborn care is a fundamental right for every newborn across the globe. Newborns have the inherent entitlement to protection agnst injury and infection, uninterrupted respiration, proper warmth, and nourishment through breastfeeding. Access to essential newborn care should be universally avlable, encompassing both in-facility and home-based healthcare throughout the entire neonatal period.

Key Elements of Essential Newborn Care

Essential newborn care is a holistic approach comprising immediate actions at birth including delayed cord clamping, rigorous drying procedures, respiratory assessment, skin-to-skin contact, and early breastfeeding, thermal management strategies, resuscitation protocols when necessary, support for exclusive breastfeeding practices, nurturing care measures, infection prevention techniques, health condition assessments, identification of danger signs, timely referral systems where needed.

WHO's Role in Supporting Essential Newborn Care

As part of WHO’s initiatives, it is committed to monitoring and data analysis, guideline development, quality improvement efforts, and research activities related to newborn healthcare. This includes:

• Implementing the Every Newborn: An Action Plan adopted by the UN Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health 2016 - 2030 framework.

• Collaborating with countries to strengthen data collection on routine health services for newborns.

• Facilitating national-level indicator development at both regional and subnational levels to measure coverage of essential care indicators.

Selected Publications and Resources

Regularly updated clinical guidelines med at promoting best practices in newborn healthcare are a core component of WHO's work. We provide support to countries for implementing these guidelines through:

• Publication of new guidance documents, such as recommations on newborn health approved by the World Health Organization Guidelines Review Committee.

• Sharing knowledge with stakeholders through updates like WHO Recommations: Intrapartum Care for a Positive Childbirth Experience and WHO Recommations on Maternal and Newborn Care for a Positive Postnatal Experience.

Skill Development Initiatives

Engaging in partnerships to create tools that help healthcare providers improve their skills, assess the quality of newborn care provided across facilities.

Key Publications

• Standards for Improving Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in Health Facilities July 2016 - This publication highlights considerable progress made over two decades in facility-based childbirth coverage; however, it also underlines persisting challenges in maternal and neonatal mortality reduction efforts.

• Resource Strategies to Improve Newborn Care in Health Facilities September 2020 - This guide offers strategies for enhancing healthcare workforce planning and management med at boosting newborn health outcomes.

Research Contributions

Partnership-driven research activities globally m to enhance existing knowledge on interventions that can improve routine newborn healthcare practices. These efforts support evidence-based decision-making regarding care strategies, medical protocols, and resource allocation in different regions.

Further Information

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that this is an updated version of a previous document released by WHO in 2024.

: This document represents an ongoing commitment to improving newborn healthcare globally by WHO and is subject to periodic revisions and updates.
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