Apr 8, 2024 · A newborn infant, or neonate, refers to a baby in the first 28 days of life, a period marked by the highest risk of morbidity and mortality. Enhancing neonatal survival and health and preventing …

Aug 14, 2025 · To ensure every child survives and thrives to reach their full potential, we must focus on improving care around the time of birth and the first week of life. The high rates of preventable death …

Mar 14, 2024 · WHO fact sheet on newborn mortality, including key facts, causes, priority strategies, newborn care and WHO response.

Sep 19, 2020 · Who is most at risk? Neonates Globally 2.4 million children died in the first month of life in 2019. There are approximately 6 700 newborn deaths every day, amounting to 47% of all child …

Nov 9, 2019 · Neonatal infections are primarily bacterial in origin, and include pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis. Neonatal infections result in over 550 000 neonatal deaths every year. Most of these …

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that exists in two forms, vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol which is the mammalian form and vitamin D2 or ergocalciferol which is the fungal form (1, 2). From a nutritional …

May 2, 2017 · Overview Please note that this publication is being updated. This publication on WHO recommendations related to newborn health is one of four in a series; the others relate to maternal, …

Aug 9, 2023 · Vitamin A deficiency is a public health problem in many parts of the world, particularly Africa and South-East Asia. In infants and children, vitamin A is essential to support rapid growth and …

Proportion of infants whose mothers had two tetanus toxoid doses during the last pregnancy or had received at least TT2 (3 years protection), TT3 (5 years protection), TT4 (10 years protection) or TT5 …

The WHO Child Growth Standards This web site presents the WHO Child Growth Standards. These standards were developed using data collected in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. …