Making Every Baby Count: Audit and Review of Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths (WHO)
World Health Organization, “Making Every Baby Count: Audit and Review of Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths,” (August 2016)
URL: www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/documents/stillbirth-neonatal-death-review/en/
This guide shows the way forward for health-care facilities or whole countries to introduce a system to address the burden of stillbirths and neonatal deaths. Similar to the maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR) approach to ending preventable maternal mortality, this guide and related tools provide support for identifying cases, collecting information and analysing the data collected to recommend solutions to improve the quality of care and to implement the changes within a continuous evaluation and response cycle. This guide does not suggest setting up a new system, but building on systems already in place. The approach is in line with two of the five objectives outlined in the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP): Strategic Objective 2 – Improve the quality of maternal and newborn care; and Strategic Objective 5 – Count every newborn through measurement, programme-tracking and accountability to generate data for decision-making and action.
