This flipbook, released in Nov. 2011, contains key messages that pregnant women and their families need in order to plan care of an infant at home right after birth. It focuses on essential actions families can take both to prevent newborn death and... illness and to promote healthy newborn development.
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A toolkit for Implementation. Module 3: Participatory community assessment in maternal and newborn health
Impact Evalution Report 61
This journal is funded by CBM
Updated May 2017
This document is meant to respond to the questions:
■ What health interventions should be the newborn and young infants < 2 months of age receive and when should s/he receive it?
■ What ...te-to-highlight medbox">health behaviours should a mother/caregiver practise (or not practise)?
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The primary audience for the guideline is policy makers and health programme managers of MNCH and immunization programmes in ministries of health where decisions are made and policies created on the... use and implementation of homebased records.
The guideline is also aimed at health providers who use home-based records as a tool for recording information and providing health education or communicating key information. Development and international agencies and non-governmental organizations that support the implementation of home-based records will also find this guideline of use.
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Minimum standards of home care for older people in Red Cross Red Crescent volunteer-based programming in the Europe Zone
This pocket book is a 317 page summary of the emergency components of obstetrics and resuscitation of the newborn infant from our textbook "International Maternal & Childhealth Care - A practical manual for hospitals worldwide". The reader is referr...ed to the textbook when more details on the medical problem under consideration are required.
If you work in a hospital in a low income country - providing free care - you are probably intitled to FREE copies of these books. MCAI will send them to you, all you have to do is to read our Flyer and fill in the request form.
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This 277 page pocketbook is a summary of the emergency components of basic neonatal and older infants hospital care from our 900 page textbook “International Maternal & Childhealth Care. A practi...cal manual for hospitals worldwide”.
If you work in a hospital in a low income country - providing free care - you are probably intitled to FREE copies of these books. MCAI will send them to you, all you have to do is to read our Flyer and fill in the request form.
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PLoS ONE 11(1): e0144662. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144662
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000, 78 (6)
A supplement to The State of the World’s Children Report 2009