Successful implementation of Helping Babies Survive and Helping Mothers Survive programs-An Utstein formula for newborn and maternal survival.

Globally, the burden of deaths and illness is still unacceptably high at the day of birth. Annually, approximately 300.000 women die related to childbirth, 2.7 million babies die within their first month of life, and 2.6 million babies are stillborn. Many of these fatalities could be avoided by basi...

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Main Authors: Hege L Ersdal, Nalini Singhal, Georgina Msemo, Ashish Kc, Santorino Data, Nester T Moyo, Cherrie L Evans, Jeffrey Smith, Jeffrey M Perlman, Susan Niermeyer, participants in the Utstein consensus process: How to implement successful Helping Babies Survive and Helping Mothers Survive programs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5462342?pdf=render