"Household-to-Hospital Continuum of Maternal and Newborn Care" report now available
21 November 2005
Baltimore, Md. – The ACCESS Program is
happy to announce the publication of the "Household-to-Hospital
Continuum of Maternal and Newborn Care" report. The household-to-hospital
continuum of care (HHCC) is a comprehensive approach that promotes evidenced-based practices and
addresses the enabling environment factors that affect care seeking behaviors
in the community. This integrated approach encourages communities and health
care providers to work together to provide appropriate and timely care for
women and newborns.
More than 529,000 women and 4 million newborns die every
year—nearly all in developing countries. Although effective interventions for
many causes of maternal and newborn death are well documented, effective
delivery of care remains an enormous challenge in these settings. Use of
existing simple, cost-effective interventions would dramatically reduce these
deaths.
The ACCESS Program works to expand coverage, access,
and use of health services across this continuum of care—from the household to
the hospital—with the aim of making high-quality health services accessible as
close to the home as possible. Through proven, affordable approaches to
maternal and newborn care, ACCESS aims to lay a foundation to enable families
in the poorest environments to achieve what many in the world take for
granted—the health and survival of their mothers and newborns.
About ACCESS
The ACCESS Program is the U.S. Agency for International Development’s
global program to improve maternal and newborn health. The ACCESS Program works to expand
coverage, access and use of key maternal and newborn health services across a continuum
of care from the household to the hospital—with the aim of making quality health services
accessible for women and newborns.
Jhpiego implements the program in partnership with Save the
Children, Constella Futures, the Academy for Educational Development, the American
College of Nurse-Midwives and IMA World Health.
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