Joseph de Graft-Johnson

TL;DR: This work defines a population-level or public-health framework based on integrated service delivery throughout the lifecycle, and proposes eight packages to promote health for mothers, babies, and children that can be used to deliver more than 190 separate interventions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define a population-level or public-health framework based on integrated service delivery throughout the lifecycle, and propose eight packages to promote health for mothers, babies, and children.

TL;DR: Improving newborn care and newborn health outcomes in Ethiopia will likely require a multifaceted approach and community-based promotion of preventive newborn care practices, which has been effective in other settings, is an important strategy.

TL;DR: Nine out of top ten identified priorities were in the domain of research on improving delivery of known interventions, with simplified neonatal resuscitation program and clinical algorithms and improved skills of community health workers leading the list.

TL;DR: In all countries assessed, major deficiencies exist for essential newborn care supplies and equipment, as well as for health worker knowledge and performance of key routine newborn care practices, particularly for immediate skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding initiation.