Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: Key Messages from DCP3
2016
As part of the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition, the World Bank has published a volume on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health that identifies essential cost-effective health interventions that can be scaled-up now to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths, and stillbirths. This article summarizes the key findings and estimates the impact and cost of expanded implementation of these interventions.
Scaling up all preventive and therapeutic health interventions in these integrated packages from current coverage levels in 2015 to hypothetically immediately achieve 90% coverage would avert 149,000 maternal deaths, 849,000 stillbirths, 1,497,000 newborn deaths and 1,514,000 additional child deaths. The annual incremental cost of immediately scaling up these essential interventions would be $6.2 billion in low-income countries, $12.4 billion in lower middle-income countries and $7.9 billion in upper middle-income countries.
Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: Key Messages from DCP3
Source:
Black R, Levin C, Walker N et al. Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: Key Messages from Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition. The Lancet 2016; 388 (10061): 2811-2824. http://dcp-3.org/resources/reproductive-maternal-newborn-and-child-health-key-messages-disease-control-priorities-3rd