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Documents on newborn health

Key documents

• Home visits for the newborn child: a strategy to improve survival
  WHO and UNICEF now recommend home visits in the baby’s first week of life to improve newborn survival. This Statement includes information on how to care for the newborn child at home.

• IMCI chart booklet - standard
  The IMCI training materials and chart booklet were originally developed in 1995, and are now being used in more than 100 countries around the world. This revised version includes new sections on the management of illness in the first week of a child's life.

2013

• Preconception care to reduce maternal and childhood mortality and morbidity
  Meeting report and packages of interventions: WHO HQ, February 2012

2012

• Born too soon: the global action report on preterm birth
• Caring for the newborn at home
  A training course for community health workers
• Guidelines on basic newborn resuscitation
• HIV and infant feeding 2010: an updated framework for priority action
  WHO guidelines
• Informal meeting on provision of home-based care to mother and child in the first week after birth
  Follow-up to the Joint WHO/UNICEF statement on home visits for the newborn child, meeting report, 8–10 February 2012
• Levels and trends in child mortality
• Saving mother's and children's lives
  Video

2011

• District planning tool for maternal and newborn health strategy implementation
• Guidelines on optimal feeding of low birth-weight infants in low- and middle-income countries
• Priority medicines for mothers and children 2011
  Ensuring access to priority medicines for mothers and children improves health and saves lives.

2010

• CAH progress report highlights 2009
• Countdown to 2015: taking stock of maternal, newborn & child survival
  Decade Report (2000-2010)
• Essential newborn care course
• Facts for life
  Fourth edition
• Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding 2010
  Principles and recommendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part II: measurement
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part III: country profiles
• Packages of interventions
  Family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and child health
• Parliamentarians take action for maternal and newborn health and survival: report on WHO/IPU meeting, Kampala, Uganda, 23-25 November 2009
• PMTCT strategic vision 2010–2015
  Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals
• Report of the WHO technical consultation on neonatal vitamin A supplementation research priorities
  Geneva, Switzerland, 4-5 December 2008
• WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children

2009

• Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast-milk substitutes
• CAH progress report highlights 2008
• Counselling for maternal and newborn health care
  A handbook for building skills
• Development of a Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP)
  Report of an informal consultation, Chavannes de Bogis, Switzerland, 25-27 February 2008
• Home visits for the newborn child: a strategy to improve survival
  WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement
• Identifying priorities for child health research to achieve millennium development goal 4
  Consultation proceedings, Geneva, 26–27 March 2009
• Infant and young child feeding - tools and materials
• Infant and young child feeding: Model Chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals
• Integrated Management of Childhood Illness computerized training tool
• Managing programmes to improve child health
  Introduction, planning implementation, managing implementation, workbook, facilitator guide
• Primary Child Care: A manual for health workers
• Safer pregnancy in Tamil Nadu
  From vision to reality
• WHO child growth standards and the identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children
  A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund

2008

• Complementary feeding counselling
  A training course
• Countdown to 2015: tracking progress in maternal, newborn & child survival
  The 2008 report
• HIV and infant feeding counselling tools
• IMCI chart booklet - standard
• IMCI chart booklet for high HIV settings
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part I: definition
• Introducing zinc in a diarrhoeal control programme
  Guide to conducting formative research
• Manual for the health care of children in humanitarian emergencies
• Strengthening action to improve feeding of infants and young children 6-23 months of age in nutrition and child health programmes
  Report of proceedings, Geneva, 6-9 October 2008
• Technical consultation on the integration of HIV interventions into maternal, newborn and child health services
• The international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes
  Frequently asked questions

2007

• Evidence on the long-term effects of breastfeeding
  Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
• HIV and infant feeding: new evidence and programmatic experience
  Report of a technical consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, Mother and their Infants, Geneva, Switzerland, 25-27 October 2006
• HIV and infant feeding: update
  Based on the Technical Consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Infants, Geneva, Switzerland, 25-27 October 2006
• HIV transmission through breastfeeding
  A review of available evidence
• Indoor air pollution from solid fuels and risk of low birth weight and stillbirth
  Report from a symposium held at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), September 2005, Johannesburg
• Neonatal and perinatal mortality 2004
  Country, regional and global estimates
• Planning guide for national implementation of the Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• Standards for maternal and newborn health
  Group 1: General standards of care for healthy pregnancy and childbirth
• The impact of zinc supplementation on childhood mortality and severe morbidity
  Report of a workshop to review the results of three large studies
• WHO HIV and infant feeding technical consultation - consensus statement
  Held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, mothers and their infants

2006

• Neonatal and perinatal mortality 2000
  Country, regional and global estimates
• Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care
  A guide for essential practice

2005

• The World Health Report 2005
  Make every mother and child count

2004

• Call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in the current Asian emergency, and caution about unnecessary use of milk products
  WHO, UNICEF, ICRC, IFRC statement
• Consultative meeting to review evidence and research priorities in the management of ARI
• Guiding principles for feeding non-breastfed children 6-24 months of age
• HIV and infant feeding counselling: from research to practice
• HIV and infant feeding data analysis
  Workshop report
• HIV and infant feeding generic slide set
• HIV and infant feeding: a guide for health-care managers and supervisors
• HIV and infant feeding: guidelines for decision-makers
• Home-modified animal milk for replacement feeding: is it feasible and safe?
  Discussion paper prepared for HIV and infant feeding technical consultation, 25-27 October 2006
• Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling
  An Integrated Course
• Low birthweight
  Country, regional and global estimates
• Making pregnancy safer: The critical role of the skilled attendant
  A joint statement by WHO, ICM and FIGO
• Newborn health policy and planning framework
  Working version
• Optimal feeding of low-birth-weight infants
  Technical review
• The Lancet Neonatal survival series
• UNICEF and WHO joint statement on HIV and infant feeding
• Update on dissemination and use of new and revised HIV and infant feeding publications
• Urinary tract infections in infants and children in developing countries in the context of IMCI
• What are the options?
  Using formative research to adapt global recommendations on HIV and infant feeding to the local context

2003

• Community-based strategies for breastfeeding promotion and support in developing countries
• Complementary feeding: report of the global consultation, and summary of guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Discussion paper 146: moving forward with complementary feeding
  Indicators and research priorities
• Explore simplified antimicrobial regimens for the treatment of neonatal sepsis
  Meeting report, Geneva, 30th September – 1st October 2002
• Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
  Geneva, 3-5 February 2003 : Meeting report
• Infant and young child feeding
  A tool for assessing national practices, policies and programmes
• Kangaroo mother care: a practical guide
• Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth
  A guide for midwives and doctors
• Special supplement of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin based on a WHO expert consultation on complementary feeding

2002

• Global action for skilled attendants for pregnant women
• Nutrient adequacy of exclusive breastfeeding for the term infant during the first six months of life
• Report of informal technical meeting to review and develop indicators for complementary feeding
  3-5 December 2002, Washington, D.C.

2001

• Breastfeeding and replacement feeding practices in the context of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
  An assessment tool for research
• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review
• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: report of an expert consultation

1990-1999

• Breastfeeding and maternal tuberculosis
• Breastfeeding counselling: a training course
  Director's guide, trainer's guide and participants' guide
• Care in normal birth: a practical guide
• Complementary feeding: family foods for breastfed children
• Evidence for the ten steps to successful breastfeeding
• Hepatitis B and breastfeeding
• HIV and infant feeding counselling: a training course
• Hypoglycaemia of the newborn
  Review of the literature
• IMCI in-service training
  Set of training modules, facilitator's guides and course director's guide
• Indicators for assessing breastfeeding practices
• Mastitis: causes and management
• Mother-Baby Package: Implementing safe motherhood in countries
• Thermal protection of the newborn: a practical guide