Human Resources for Health-Related Challenges to Ensuring Quality Newborn Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review
This scoping review mapped the evidence of human resources for health-related challenges to providing quality facility-based newborn care into 10 categories amd provided useful insight to inform recently published World Health Organization strategies to systematically address the challenges and strengthen HRH for newborn care globally and nationally.
Nurturing care handbook: Operationalizing the Nurturing Care Framework
The handbook is organized around five strategic actions. For each strategic action, the guides include: overviews, suggested actions, common barriers, tools and checklists for common tasks, indicators for monitoring progress, links to helpful articles and websites, and case studies, showing how governments and other stakeholders around the world can put nurturing care into practice.
Guide pratique pour les soins attentifs: Renforcer les soins attentifs par l’intermédiaire des services de santé et de nutrition
Ce guide est destiné aux responsables et aux prestataires de services qui dirigent ou fournissent des services de santé et de nutrition au profit des jeunes enfants et des personnes qui s’en occupent, à tous les niveaux. Il a été élaboré en réponse aux demandes des praticiens et des équipes de pays qui ont pris […]
Every Newborn Action Plan Progress report 2019
This report presents data from 90 countries collated in 2018 using the tracking tool. Monitoring progress helps to identify current needs and gaps related to each of the Every Newborn milestones; this progress report is published to increase understanding and to help coordinate our efforts to improve maternal and newborn health and to end preventable […]
Integrating stakeholder and community engagement in quality of care initiatives for maternal, newborn and child health
This module aims to make stakeholder and community engagement an integral part of quality improvement initiatives and suggests approaches to make stakeholder and community engagement comprehensive and meaningful.
Human resource strategies to improve newborn care in health facilities in low- and middle-income countries
This documents aims to provide a framework and strategies for countries to transform their policies on human resources for health (HRH) and provide their health workers with the knowledge and technical and behavioural skills necessary for high-quality care by 2030, to ensure that all newborns survive and thrive.
Birth defects surveillance: A manual for programme managers, 2nd Edition
This manual is intended to serve as a tool for the development, implementation and ongoing improvement of a congenital anomalies surveillance programme, particularly for countries with limited resources. The focus of the manual is on population-based and hospital-based surveillance programmes.
Birth defects surveillance: quick reference handbook of selected congenital anomalies and infections
This is a companion tool to Birth defects surveillance: a manual for programme managers, and is intended for use by front-line health care professionals who are diagnosing and collecting data on congenital defects and infections.
Infographics: the Quality of Care Network timeline
Quality health services: a planning guide
guide focuses on actions required at the national, district and facility levels to enhance quality of health services, providing guidance on implementing key activities at each of these three levels. It highlights the need for a health systems approach to enhance quality of care, with a common understanding on the activities needed by all stakeholders. […]