Moran, AC;
Moller, AB;
Chou, D;
Morgan, A;
El Arifeen, S;
Hanson, C;
Say, L;
... Costello, A; + view all
(2018)
'What gets measured gets managed': revisiting the indicators for maternal and newborn health programmes.
Reproductive Health
, 15
, Article 19. 10.1186/s12978-018-0465-z.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The health of women and children are critical for global development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda and the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescent’s Health 2016–2030 aim to reduce maternal and newborn deaths, disability, and enhancement of well-being. However, information and data on measuring countries’ progress are limited given the variety of methodological challenges of measuring care around the time of birth, when most maternal and neonatal deaths and morbidities occur. MAIN BODY: In 2015, the World Health Organization launched Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results (MoNITOR), a technical advisory group to WHO. MoNITOR comprises 14 independent global experts from a variety of disciplines selected in a competitive process for their technical expertise and regional representation. MoNITOR will provide technical guidance to WHO to ensure harmonized guidance, messages, and tools so that countries can collect useful data to track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. SHORT CONCLUSION: Ultimately, MoNITOR will provide technical guidance to WHO to ensure harmonized guidance, messages, and tools so that countries can collect useful data to track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | 'What gets measured gets managed': revisiting the indicators for maternal and newborn health programmes |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12978-018-0465-z |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0465-z |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, Maternal, Newborn, Measurement, Monitoring |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > VP: Research |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056708 |
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