Blerta Maliqi

TL;DR: Evidence is provided from several countries showing that rapid progress is possible and that focused and targeted interventions can reduce inequities related to socioeconomic status and sex and much more can and should be done to address maternal and newborn health and improve coverage of interventions related to family planning, care around childbirth, and case management of childhood illnesses.

TL;DR: The Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Survival (Countdown) initiative as mentioned in this paper was a multistakeholder initiative of more than 40 academic, international, bilateral, and civil society institutions to monitor progress and raise the visibility of the health of mothers, newborns, and children.

TL;DR: Analysis of intervention coverage, equity, and drivers of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) in the 81 Countdown countries suggests that available services in many countries are of poor quality, limiting the potential effect on RMNCH outcomes.

TL;DR: The Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Survival has focused its 2014 report on how much has been achieved in intervention coverage in these groups, and on how best to sustain, focus, and intensify efforts to progress for this and future generations.

TL;DR: The Success Factors for Women's and Children's Health (SELF) studies as discussed by the authors investigated why some countries achieve faster progress than other comparable countries in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by using statistical and econometric analyses of data from 144 low and middle-income countries (LMICs).