#EveryNewborn
Steps to take Interventions for healthy mothers before, during and babies and after pregnancy
Maternal deaths Newborn deaths Child deaths Children in developing 289,000 40% countries are women died during of newborn deaths & 56x pregnancy and stillbirths occur around more likely to die before childbirth in 2013 the time of labour/day age 5, compared to worldwide of birth worldwide developed countries
Severe bleeding 80% of all maternal Infection deaths are due to Unsafe abortion High blood pressure
What can researchers and healthcare workers do to reduce these figures? Preconception interventions Closing the gap in the continuum of care
Receive treatment for psychological/substance issues before pregnancy By consulting Be screened for pre-pregnancy STDs with a Empowering healthcare Optimise their BMI Women worker, women can: Vaccinate against tetanus
Gain access to family planning
Pregnancy interventions
Improved access to a skilled birth attendant is key
Investing in midwives Midwives can perform 87% can save millions of the essential care for of women and women & newborns with newborn lives proper education
Calcium to reduce hypertension Research has found that Continuous social support these Healthy interventions pregnancy during Iron and folic acid supplementation and pregnancy birth can improve Managing unintended pregnancies outcomes outcomes by: Prevent and manage HIV/malaria/syphilis
Childbirth interventions
C-section for maternal indication Research has found that Newborn immunization these Healthy interventions maternal during Neonatal resuscitation and childbirth newborn can improve Immediate essential newborn care outcomes outcomes: Preventing and managing post-partum haemorrhages
Postnatal interventions Researchers have demonstrated that the following post-pregnancies interventions can improve newborn and maternal health:
Vitamin A treats measles supplementation > 6 months of treats pneumonia age decreases mortality
Zinc decreases severity of diarrhoea in newborns
Corticosteroids decrease neonatal deaths
decrease maternal haemorrhage
prevent neonatal distress syndrome
Vaccinations given in the first 24 hours of life (BCG/OPV, Hep B) can dramatically decrease a newborn’s risk of dying from certain preventative diseases and death in later life
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