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What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

What are the Sustainable Development Goals? The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) follow from the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were defined in 2000 as a means to drive international …

Progress for child survival: Pneumonia and diarrhoea

Dr Shunmay Yeung now highlights our third and final examples of rapidly-reducing but major causes of child mortality: pneumonia and diarrhoea. Despite gains these two conditions remain the biggest childhood …

Common themes about data gaps

Good quality data can help to drive informed decision making about implementation strategies and targeted investment. In maternal and child health, the power of data to enhance accountability was made …

Progress for child survival: malaria

Moving on from HIV and AIDS, in our second example Professor Chris Whitty looks at a fast-reducing but major cause of child deaths: malaria. Half of the world population is …

Society and context

The next theme is the importance of society and context when thinking about health. The importance of country context is central to thinking about improving health outcomes, especially in the …

Access to quality care

The next theme is access to quality health care across the lifecycle. Use of health services for routine care by women, newborns and children is increasing, especially in low- and …

What can data tell us about why children under five die?

Knowing how many children die and the main causes of death can help us to identify priorities for improving child survival. Having data on these deaths enables us to determine …

Survive and thrive

Over the next few steps Dr Tanya Marchant will pull together the evidence on lifecycle thinking introduced, developed and analysed throughout the course. The first theme we’ll consider is surviving …

Lifecycle thinking for health

Where does the lifecycle concept come from? Epidemiology and epigenetic science has helped us to understand the importance of health through the life course, but the lifecycle is not just …

Child survival in the SDG world: what next?

The first thing to remember is that despite a lot of progress, 6 million children are still dying each year, and that means we have an unfinished child survival agenda. …

Five things to do differently

We need to act and we need to act differently. This step outlines five actions we should take to end preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths. These five things include: Intentional …

Summary of Week 5

We have now reached the end of Week 5. We hope you now have a deeper understanding of some of the progress, challenges and future directions for child health. Deaths …

Donor Funding For Women’s and Children’s Health

In 2015, Arregoces and colleagues conducted an analysis of selected donor funding for women’s and children’s health worldwide for the period 2003-2012. This work forms part of Countdown to 2015, …

Newborn Mortality Rates in Peru

During the MDG (Millennium Development Goals) era, maternal mortality and under-five child deaths have been halved, with a number of low- and middle-income countries achieving MDG 4 for child survival. …

Discovery science: intergenerational effects

How can discovery science contribute to the improvement of child health? If we don’t know the cause of a problem, we’re unlikely to know the solution to it either. This …

Course: Improving the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents: from Evidence to Action

Improving the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents: from Evidence to Action