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 […]
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.
Improving the Quality of Care for Mothers and Newborns in Health Facilities – Point of care quality improvement, facilitator and learner manuals
Point of Care Quality Improvement (POCQI) is a simplified 4-step model to enable and empower health workers teams to use their local data to identify quality gaps (problems or issues), undertake root-cause analysis in their own context, and identify and implement a solution to address the identified quality problem. PDSA cycles are used to test […]
Continuing essential Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health services during COVID-19 pandemic
This document provides generic operational guidance to prepare a continuity plan in South and South-East Asia and the Pacific for maintaining good quality and equitable sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
New resources for point of care quality improvement
The “Coaching for Quality Improvement” and “Setting up and Managing a Quality Improvement Programme at District Level” guides are part of regional package of resources for improving the quality of care for mothers and newborns in health facilities, which also includes training manuals on point of care quality improvement’ for both facilitators and participants.
Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth: a guide for midwives and doctors, 2nd ed (2017)
A woman presenting with a life-threatening obstetric complication is in an emergency situation requiring immediate diagnosis and management. Therefore, the main text of this manual is arranged by symptom (e.g. vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy). The emphasis of the manual is on rapid assessment and decision making.