Survival convergence: Bringing maternal and newborn health together for 2015 and beyond

摘要

When WHO published the Mother-Baby Package in 1996, mothers and newborn babies were viewed as a dyad, and it was assumed that what was good for the mother was good for the baby. Basic interventions to deal with newborn complications were included, but neonatal mortality received little attention from the broader public health community, or even from the maternal health and child health communities. Although global attention to newborn health began in 2000 with the launch of the Saving Newborn Lives initiative, and accelerated with the publication of the Lancet Series on Neonatal Survival in 2005, reductions in neonatal mortality lagged behind maternal and under-5 mortality. Worldwide, 44% of deaths in children younger than 5 years now occur in the first month of life, a huge and highly inequitable burden.