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Essential newborn care courseThe Essential Newborn Care Course aims to ensure health workers have the skills and knowledge to provide appropriate care at the most vulnerable period in a baby’s life. Health workers are taught to use WHO’s Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum and Newborn Care: A guide for essential practice – and particularly the sections concerned with newborn care – that provides up-to-date evidence-based information and management of babies with a range of needs in the initial newborn period. |
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Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care: A guide for essential practice (3rd edition)Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care: a guide for essential practice (3rd edition) (PCPNC), has been updated to include recommendations from recently approved WHO guidelines relevant to maternal and perinatal health. These include pre-eclampsia & eclampsia; postpartum haemorrhage; postnatal care for the mother and baby; newborn resuscitation; prevention of mother-to- child transmission of HIV; HIV and infant feeding; malaria in pregnancy, interventions to improve preterm birth outcomes, tobacco use and second-hand exposure in pregnancy, post-partum depression, post-partum family planning and post abortion care. |
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WHO recommendations on newborn healthThis compilation of WHO recommendations on newborn health produced by all related departments are the ones that have been approved by the Guidelines Review Committee of WHO. These series of recommendations are those responding to the “what” questions i.e. what health interventions a newborn should receive and when s/he should receive them. |
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