Key Messages from DCP3, Volume 2: Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
2016
This review article from The Lancet summarizes the analyses from volume two of Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3), published by the World Bank, entitled Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. The volume identifies essential cost-effective health interventions that can be scaled up to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths, and stillbirths. In this article, the authors summarize the key findings and estimate the effect and cost of expanded implementation of those preventative and therapeutic health interventions. They note that continued and expanded essential health interventions to ensure full, equitable, and high-quality coverage— combined with action that addresses underlying problems such as social inequities and violence against women— will result in the dramatic reduction in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child mortality and morbidity.
Key Messages from DCP3, Volume 2: Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Source:
Black RE, Levin C, Walker N et al. Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: Key Messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition. The Lancet 2016; 388 (10061): 2811-2824. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00738-8