Strengthening Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring during Labor with a Standard Handheld Doppler - Implementation Experience from India.

Background: India's neonatal and perinatal mortality is among the highest in the world. Intrapartum-related conditions contribute to a significant proportion of neonatal deaths and stillbirths. Fetal heart rate monitoring, a recommended norm to assess fetal well-bring, is not practiced as per standard guidelines in public health facilities.

Safe Delivery application with facilitation increases knowledge and confidence of obstetric and neonatal care among frontline health workers in India.

Background: Digital learning tools have proliferated among healthcare workers in India. Evidence of their effectiveness is however minimal. We sought to examine the impact of the Safe Delivery App (SDA) on knowledge and confidence among frontline health workers (HW) in India.

Intrapartum Fetal Heart Monitoring Practices in Selected Facilities in Aspirational Districts of Jharkhand, Odisha and Uttarakhand.

Background: The risk of mortality for the mother and the newborn is aggravated during birth in low- and middle-income countries due to preventable causes, which can be addressed with increased quality of care practices. One such practice is intrapartum fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring, which is crucial for the early detection of fetal ischemia, but is inadequately monitored in low- and middle-income countries. In India, there is currently a lack of sufficient data on FHR monitoring.

Implementation of "health systems approach" to improve vaccination at birth in institutional deliveries at public health facilities; experience from six states of India.

Introduction: Newborn vaccination is an integral part of routine immunization program in India, but program implementation gaps exist. The focus of this article is to identify and describe an implementation strategy which could improve the newborn vaccination at the facility level.

Materials And Methods: A situation analysis was conducted through a mixed-methods approach to identify the lacunae in the health system and the same was used to develop an implementation strategy to improve newborn vaccination coverage across the six priority states.