Early essential newborn care: a healthy start for every newborn baby in the Western Pacific Region
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1007-9408.2019.08.002
- VernacularTitle:新生儿早期基本保健:为西太平洋地区的每位新生儿创造健康的生命开端
- Author:
Mannava PRIYA
1
;
Sobel L. HOWARD
Author Information
1. 世界卫生组织西太平洋地区办公室
- Keywords:
Neonatal nursing;
Health promotion;
Maternal-child health services
- From:
Chinese Journal of Perinatal Medicine
2019;22(8):540-549
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
To improve newborn survival and ensure a healthy start for every baby, Member States of World Health Organization endorsed the Action Plan for Healthy Newborn Infants (2014-2020) in the Western Pacific Region in 2013. The focus of which is on implementation of early essential newborn care (EENC). Such items, regional approach to introducing, sustaining and scaling up EENC; progress in EENC implementation;mobilizing social support for newborn care; best practice, lessons learned and future directions, were summarized in this editorial. Efforts are being undertaken in China, which would help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal targets on maternal and child health and universal health coverage.
