Publications
Key publications
Country assessments (2020-2021)
Sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in the context of universal health coverage
Perinatal mortality audit: North Macedonia 2019
The perinatal mortality audit process in 2019 provided important insights and evidence-based recommendations that can be used both to address system errors and barriers and to identify and praise points of strength.
COVID-19 and breastfeeding - Position paper (2020)
Breastmilk is the best source of nutrition for infants, including infants whose mothers have confirmed or suspected coronavirus infection. As long as an infected mother takes appropriate precautions—outlined in this paper—she can breastfeed her baby.
Delivery of antenatal care services to Syrians and resident population living in Şanliurfa, Turkey (2019)
A project for 40 Syrian guest women and 40 Turkish resident women with high-risk pregnancies was completed in May 2018 in the district of Eyyübiye in the city of Şanlıurfa, Turkey.
Proper maternal nutrition during pregnancy planning and pregnancy: a healthy start in life (2017)
Recommendations for health care professionals – the experience from Latvia
Conducting a maternal near-miss case review cycle at hospital level (2016)
The manual describes the near-miss case review (NMCR) cycle as a type of “clinical audit” and is defined as “A continuous process to improve the quality of patient care and outcomes in facilities by systematic review of care against explicit criteria and implementation of changes”.
Hospital care for mothers and newborn babies quality assessment and improvement tool (second edition 2014)
This tool and the process of using it can assist hospitals and health authorities towards providing quality health care to mothers and newborn babies. The tool adopts a participatory approach that facilitates wide involvement and sustained improvement of practice.
Improving quality of antenatal and postpartum care and referral system (2014)
Report of a WHO regional meeting on “Improving quality of Antenatal and Postpartum care and Referral System” held in Yerevan, Armenia on 24-25 October 2013.
Review and reorientation of the “programme for active health protection of mothers and children” for greater health equity in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (2013)
This publication presents the process of and lessons learned from the review and reorientation of a programme for active health protection of mothers and children for greater health equity, with an explicit but not exclusive focus on the Roma population.
Improvement of maternal and child health in Kazakhstan, Entre Nous 74 (2011)
Issue No 74 of Entre Nous, “Improvement of maternal and child health in Kazakhstan” describes how politicians, managers and clinicians, supported by WHO and the European Union, have begun to transform out-of-date practice by introducing evidence-based care.
Six success stories in Making Pregnancy Safer (2010)
This brochure documents some of the success stories from the work of the WHO Regional Office for Europe – through its Making Pregnancy Safer programme (MPS) – in the European Region in the past 10 years.
Albania success stories in improving mother and child health (2010)
Over the past decade, the Ministry of Health of Albania has been carrying out a health reform with special emphasis on improving health of mothers, babies and children. Within the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Care Reform Project (MNCH), funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation with technical assistance from the WHO Regional Office for Europe, a series of successful initiatives have been initiated. Some of the success stories are described in this folder.
