Using Helping Mothers Survive to Improve Intrapartum Care.

Data from the past decade have revealed that neonatal mortality represents a growing burden of the under-5 mortality rate. To further reduce these deaths, the focus must expand to include building capacity of the workforce to provide high-quality obstetric and intrapartum care. Obstetric complications, such as hypertensive disorders and obstructed labor, are significant contributors to neonatal morbidity and mortality.

Cross-sectional observational assessment of quality of newborn care immediately after birth in health facilities across six sub-Saharan African countries.

Objective: To present information on the quality of newborn care services and health facility readiness to provide newborn care in 6 African countries, and to advocate for the improvement of providers' essential newborn care knowledge and skills.

Design: Cross-sectional observational health facility assessment.

Setting: Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda and Tanzania.

Safeguarding maternal and newborn health: improving the quality of postnatal care in Kenya.

Objective: To assess changes in the quality of care following the introduction of a new postnatal package.

Design: Using a pre-test, post test design to observe client-provider interactions with women 0-6 weeks postpartum.

Setting: Four health facilities in a rural district, eastern Kenya.