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ARTICLES
Purpose: To provide new information on the numbers of neonatal deaths and trends in relation to Millennium Development Goal-4, focusing on new cause of death estimates and analysis of neonatal mortality according to time of death, poverty status, gender, and urban/rural residence
Evidence-based, cost-effective interventions: how many newborn babies can we save? (Bhutta,
Purpose: To review evidence on effective interventions in reducing neonatal deaths (and in many cases also maternal deaths) in low resource settings
To package these interventions according to service delivery in health systems
To estimate the proportion of neonatal deaths that could be averted with implementation of these interventions, and present cost-effectiveness results.
Systematic scaling up of neonatal care in the reality of countries? (Knippenberg, Lawn, Darmstadt, Begkoyian, Fogstad, Walelign, Paul):
Purpose: To examine the barriers to implementation of interventions at the national level and review strategies for reaching the poor, particularly where health systems are weak; to discuss ways to introduce measures in developing countries and estimate the impact and costs per capita of scaling up coverage in three different settings (Ethiopia, Madagascar and Gujarat state in India).
Newborn health: a call to action (Martines, Paul, Bhutta, Koblinsky, Soucat, Walker, Bahl, Fostad, Costello):
Purpose: To issue a call to action to improve newborn health and survival, based on the evidence presented from the previous three papers. Specific efforts are needed by safe motherhood and child survival programmes to incoporate newborn health and make achieving the MDGs possible.
