background: one of the most common methods of identifying mortality risk is the clinical risk index for babies scoring system (crib- ii). the aim of this study was assessing the value of crib- ii in predicting mortality risk in preterm and low birth weight infants in east azerbaijan- iran. materials and methods: this prospective cohort study was carried out in 2013-2014 during 6 months in nicus...

With the spread of pandemic all over world, social isolation is applied as a precaution and people spend most their time at home with families. Therefore, responsibilities family health nurse are increasing. During this period, nurses provide services in pregnancy follow-up, newborn care individuals chronic diseases, education, vaccination, quarantine measures. It has been observed that there s...

A positive deviance (PD) inquiry identifies uncommon, model practices that a follow-on program can spread. PD has been used to rehabilitate malnourished children, but not for improving newborn health. Save the Children Federation/US (SC) conducted newborn PD cycles in communities (total population about 5,000 each) in two project areas in Haripur District, Pakistan among Afghan refugees and amo...

OBJECTIVE To understand, together with nursing staff, the care needed to treat skin lesions in newborn children hospitalized in a neonatal unit. METHOD Qualitative research, of the convergent care type. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews, which were conducted from November to December 2012, in the neonatal unit of a hospital in southern Brazil. The participants were fou...

Materials and methods Between July and August 2013, a cross-sectional study was conducted among 92 health workers, and in 20 health facilities: one hospital and 19 primary health care centres in areas where some health facility strengthening for newborn care had occurred. The indicators measured included; services offered, equipment, drugs and supplies, documentation, trained staff and supervis...

Als, H., & Gilkerson, L. (1997). Th e role of relationship-based developmentally supportive newborn intensive care in strengthening outcomes of preterm infants. Seminars in Perinatology, 21(3), 178-189. Als, H., Lawhon, G., Duff y, F. H., McAnulty, G. B., Gibes-Grossman, R., & Blickman, J. G. (1994). Individualized developmental care for the very low birthweight preterm infant: Medical and neur...

© Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University 1 India has made impressive gains in child survival in the past two decades. The neonatal care has evolved over the time period and is now an integral part of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). It was the publication of the Report of the Task Force on Minimum Perinatal Care in 1982 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Gov...

BACKGROUND For over a decade, Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health and its international development partners have invested in strengthening the national health workforce and establishing a system of primary health care facilities and hospitals to reduce the high levels of maternal and child mortality that were documented shortly after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Significant progress ha...