Publications by authors named "Thandassery Ramachandran Dilip"
Background: Access to family planning services and appropriate contraceptive methods is crucial for ensuring good health outcomes for women and adolescent girls. The World Health Organization worked with the U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess the extent to which Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) has been adopted and scaled up in countries.
Setting: The 95 countries that participated in the survey are home to 82% of the global under-five population and account for 95% of the 5.9 million deaths that occurred among children less than 5 years of age in 2015; 93 of them are low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Objective: The objective of the paper is to explore if the adoption of national policies to use community-based health providers for the management of pneumonia and diarrhoea is associated with the decline in under-five mortality, including achievement of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG)4 target, in high-burden countries.
Setting: This country level analysis covers 75 high-burden low-income and middle-income countries which accounted for 98% of the 5.9 million global under-five deaths in 2015.
Article Synopsis
- Significant progress has been made in reducing maternal deaths globally from 1990 to 2015, but more urgent actions are needed to meet the Sustainable Development Goals related to ending preventable maternal deaths.
- The paper analyzes data from the WHO and UNFPA Global MDSR Implementation Survey, highlighting how Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) systems improve accountability and health outcomes in 62 countries, with specific examples from Nigeria and Ethiopia.
- While many countries have policies for maternal death notification and review, significant gaps still exist in implementing follow-up actions, disseminating findings, and engaging communities, necessitating ongoing monitoring through both quantitative surveys and qualitative case studies.