Newborn health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Aug 14, 2025 · To ensure every child survives and thrives to reach their full potential, we must focus on improving care around the time of birth and the first week of life. The high rates of preventable death …
Caring for a newborn - World Health Organization (WHO)
Sep 30, 2022 · Home / Tools and toolkits / Your life, your health - Tips and information for health and well-being / Life phase / Newborns and children under 5 years / Caring for a newborn
Newborn health WPRO
Apr 8, 2024 · A newborn infant, or neonate, refers to a baby in the first 28 days of life, a period marked by the highest risk of morbidity and mortality. Enhancing neonatal survival and health and preventing …
Essential newborn care - World Health Organization (WHO)
Essential newborn care High-quality universal newborn health care is the right of every newborn everywhere. Babies have the right to be protected from injury and infection, to breathe normally, to …
Simple, but lifesaving: skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth
Jun 11, 2025 · To help address this, WHO developed Early Essential Newborn Care (EENC) – a set of simple, cost-effective interventions proven to save newborn lives. One important part of EENC is …
Newborn Health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Newborn Health Unit Please note that this publication is being updated.This publication on WHO recommendations related to newborn health is one of four in a series; the others...
Essential Newborn Care Course Second Edition
Nov 4, 2025 · Essential newborn care course, second edition This material provides the foundation for the essential care of every newborn: immediate care at birth, resuscitation when needed, breast milk …
Newborn health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Aug 30, 2021 · The vast majority of newborn deaths take place in low- and middle-income countries. It is possible to improve survival rates and the health of newborns, and to end preventable stillbirths, by …
Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing
Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing We lead WHO’s work on the life course so that every pregnant woman, mother, newborn, child, adolescent, and older person will survive, thrive …
WHO recommendations on newborn health: guidelines approved by …
May 2, 2017 · This publication on WHO recommendations related to newborn health is one of four in a series; the others relate to maternal, child and adolescent health. The objective of this document is to …