World Health Organization and knowledge translation in maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition

The World Health Organization (WHO) has a mandate to promote maternal and child health and welfare through support to governments in the form of technical assistance, standards, epidemiological and statistical services, promoting teaching and training of healthcare professionals and providing direct aid in emergencies. The Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE) for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (MNCAHN) was established in 2020 to advise the Director-General of WHO on issues relating to MNCAHN. STAGE comprises individuals from multiple low-income and middle-income and high-income countries, has representatives from many professional disciplines and with diverse experience and interests.Progress in MNCAHN requires improvements in quality of services, equity of access and the evolution of services as technical guidance, community needs and epidemiology changes. Knowledge translation of WHO guidance and other guidelines is an important part of this. Countries need effective and responsive structures for adaptation and implementation of evidence-based interventions, strategies to improve guideline uptake, education and training and mechanisms to monitor quality and safety. This paper summarises STAGE’s recommendations on how to improve knowledge translation in MNCAHN. They include support for national and regional technical advisory groups and subnational committees that coordinate maternal and child health; support for national plans for MNCAHN and their implementation and monitoring; the production of a small number of consolidated MNCAHN guidelines to promote integrated and holistic care; education and quality improvement strategies to support guidelines uptake; monitoring of gaps in knowledge translation and operational research in MNCAHN.

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Complexity of Breastfeeding on Child/Maternal Health and Counseling Intervention

Innovations in Global Maternal Health ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-2351-3.ch017 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 395-402

Author(s):

Ogunlade Joseph Olurotimi

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Maternal And Child Health ◽

World Health ◽

Maternal Behaviour ◽

Research Approach ◽

Counseling Intervention ◽

Mother And Child ◽

Health Organization ◽

And Child Health ◽

Counseling Approach

This chapter is a critical review of the complexities of breastfeeding and its attending effects on the health of the Mother and Child. The researcher employs a historical research approach to gather both theoretical and empirical facts on this issue. It was discovered that in spite of the pragmatic and frantic efforts by different individuals, organizations, governments and non-governmental bodies in establishing a universal, healthy and safest method of breastfeeding through research, publications, workshops and so on, based on the unavoidable and uncompromising importance and benefits to maternal and child health, it is on record that the maternal behaviour is still obviously at variance to the acceptability of full breastfeeding as promulgated and declared by World Health Organization (WHO). A serious, dedicated, pragmatic and coordinated counseling approach is therefore recommended to be adopted to revive and strengthening a positive behaviour in women to foster positive attitude towards breastfeeding to guarantee 100% morbidity and mortality rate in Maternal and Child health.

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Health Services for Pregnancy in Europe

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care ◽

10.1017/s026646230000177x ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 789-797 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marsden G. Wagner

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Health Services ◽

Maternal And Child Health ◽

World Health ◽

Entire Group ◽

Health Administration ◽

Regional Office ◽

Health Organization ◽

And Child Health ◽

European Regional

In 1979, maternal and child health issues were discussed during the annual meeting of the 33 Member States of the European Region of the World Health Organization. During this discussion many countries expressed concern about the services offered for pregnancy, birth and the period following birth. The countries recognized that, as yet, unsolved problems remain which must be examined and they asked the European Regional Office of WHO to mount activities to study and report on these problems surrounding birth and birth care. In response to this request, the maternal and child health unit of the European Regional Office organized a Perinatal Study Group. The Group's 15 members came from 10 countries and spanned 10 professional disciplines: economics, epidemiology, health administration, midwifery, nursing, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychology, sociology, and statistics. For five years the Group conducted surveys, reviewed the literature and brought its own personal and professional experience to discussions of the health services for women and their babies, during pregnancy and birth, and after birth. The entire group met together at least once a year, at which time findings from the previous year's work were presented, followed by lengthy, sometimes heated, open and free discussions.

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The World Health Organization Requires Specialists in Maternal and Child Health

Acta Paediatrica ◽

10.1111/j.1651-2227.1966.tb08819.x ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 440-440

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

World Health Organization ◽

Maternal And Child Health ◽

World Health ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization ◽

And Child Health

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Negotiating Relationships of Power in a Maternal and Child Health Centre: The Experience of WHO Nurse Margaret Campbell Jackson in Iran, 1954–1956

Nursing History Review ◽

10.1891/1062-8061.23.87 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 87-122

Author(s):

Lydia Wytenbroek

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Maternal And Child Health ◽

Health Centre ◽

World Health ◽

Care Providers ◽

Cultural Encounters ◽

Her Family ◽

Health Organization ◽

And Child Health

AbstractFrom November 1954 to November 1956, Canadian nurse Margaret Campbell Jackson was employed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and was stationed in Tehran, Iran, where she participated in the establishment of a Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Centre. The objective of the project, known as Iran 10, was twofold: to set up a health service for mothers and children and to initiate a field training program for Iranian physicians, nurses, and other health care providers. Drawing on 180 letters Jackson wrote to her family in Canada from Iran, this article analyzes the MCH Centre as a contact zone and considers the relationships Jackson developed with staff affiliated with the project. The Centre became a space of cross-cultural encounters, where locally and foreign-trained Iranian staff and expatriates mingled and shared working relationships. I argue that authority was negotiated and contested through interactions and associations that were often unequal and framed by notions of progress, modernization, race, and health. Personality also played an important role.

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Complexity of Breastfeeding on Child/Maternal Health and Counseling Intervention

Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies - Handbook of Research on Chaos and Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0148-0.ch027 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 382-387

Author(s):

Ogunlade Joseph Olurotimi

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Maternal And Child Health ◽

World Health ◽

Maternal Behaviour ◽

Research Approach ◽

Counseling Intervention ◽

Mother And Child ◽

Health Organization ◽

And Child Health ◽

Counseling Approach

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THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.7.4.591 ◽

1951 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 591-601

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Maternal And Child Health ◽

World Health ◽

National Committee ◽

Health Administration ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Study Child ◽

The Usa ◽

Health Organization ◽

And Child Health

Needless to say, I am most happy to forward to you a communication from Dr. Louis Verhoestraete on a subject which has long been of deep personal concern to me. From his letter it will be apparent that the World Health Organization attaches very great importance to its work in the field of maternal and child health, and Dr. Verhoestraete has explained in some detail the methods and philosophy behind the international activities of WHO in its work for children. Dr. Verhoestraete is a Belgian paediatrician with considerable international experience. He received his early medical and paediatric training in Belgium, The Netherlands and The United Kingdom. He carried on a private paediatric practice in Antwerp and was Medical Adviser to the Belgian National Committee on Children's Health from 1942 to 1947. In this latter year he was sent on a mission by the Ministry of Public Health in Belgium to study child health administration and modern paediatrics in the USA. At the end of eight months, in 1947, he joined the WHO staff as paediatric consultant to UNICEF in Paris, and since 1950 he has been Chief of the Maternal and Child Health Section at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND REPORTS

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.2.4.499 ◽

1948 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 499-504

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Malaria Control ◽

Venereal Disease ◽

World Health ◽

International News ◽

World Health Assembly ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization ◽

First World ◽

And Child Health

The First World Health Assembly convened in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 24, 1948, and remained in session until July 24. Fifty-four nations sent delegates. The work of this First Assembly centered around the development of a program of action for the World Health Organization. After discussions of a long list of possible activities, the Assembly adopted a program which established certain priorities for the work of the Organization during the coming year. Malaria control, maternal and child health, tuberculosis and venereal disease control, nutrition and environmental sanitation were placed in the top priority. To carry out these priority programs the WHO authorized the appointment of expert committees and the establishment of appropriate sections of work in the secretariat of the Organization.

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Availability of Lifesaving Maternal and Child Health Commodities and Associated Factors in Public and Private Health Facilities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology ◽

10.1177/2333392819892350 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 233339281989235

Author(s):

Dagim Damtew ◽

Fikru Worku ◽

Yonas Tesfaye ◽

Awol Jemal

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Maternal And Child Health ◽

Associated Factors ◽

Selection Criteria ◽

Addis Ababa ◽

Health Facilities ◽

Logistics Management ◽

Public And Private ◽

And Training ◽

And Child Health

Background: Inaccessible, unaffordable, and poor quality care are the key underlying reasons for the high burden of maternal and child morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Objective: To assess the availability of lifesaving maternal and child health (MCH) commodities and associated factors in public and private health facilities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2016. Methods: Institutional-based, descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in the selected health facilities (29 publics and 6 private) in Addis Ababa. The data were collected through pretested, structured questionnaire, and in-depth interviews. For the quantitative analysis, data were analyzed using SPSS version 20 statistical software, SPSS Inc. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the variables, and the Spearman correlation test was run to determine the predictors of the outcome variables. For the qualitative data, the data were handled manually and transformed into categories related to the topics and coded on paper individually in order to identify themes and patterns for thematic analysis. Result: The overall availability of the lifesaving MCH commodities in the health facilities was 74.3%. There is a moderate, positive association between the availability of lifesaving MCH commodities with the adequacy of budget ( rs = 0.485, P < .001), use of more than 1 selection criteria during selection ( rs = 0.407, P = .015), and training given to health facilities on logistics management ( rs = 0.490, P = .003). Conclusion: The availability of the lifesaving MCH commodities in the health facilities was within the range of fairly high to high. Adequacy of budget, use of more than 1 selection criteria during selection, and training given on logistics management were the predictors of the availability of the commodities.

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