Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Outcomes: A Framework

Acknowledgments We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all of those who helped us develop this framework. We would particularly like to thank the CORE group for allowing us to present an earlier version of the framework at their fall meetings in Washington, D.C. Tsuma and their colleagues at the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program office in Washington, D.C., and from Nahed Matta, Deborah Armbruster and the other members of their team at the United States Agency for International Development. This report was made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under the terms of the Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement GHS-A-00-08-00002-000. The contents are the responsibility of the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. The Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) is the USAID Bureau for Global Health flagship maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) program. MCHIP supports programming in maternal, newborn and child health, immunization, family planning, malaria and HIV/AIDS, and strongly encourages opportunities for integration. Cross-cutting technical areas include water, sanitation, hygiene, urban health and health systems strengthening.