Global strategy
Where does the health of women, children and adolescents fit in the context of the SDGs, and how does it link to global strategy? Of the 17 new SDGs there …
Course: Improving the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents: from Evidence to Action
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) follow on from the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were defined in 2000 as a means to drive international policies and develop accountability for …
Global financing facility
In this step Dr Mariam Claeson and Dr Tanya Marchant discuss the funding gap for ending preventable deaths for mothers, newborns and children. The global financing facility, launched in 2015, …
How is sexual and reproductive health affected by crises?
Sexual and reproductive health is an often neglected topic in humanitarian crises, but in recent years humanitarian organisations and donors have increased their focus on such healthcare in emergency settings. …
Equity and social contexts for health outcomes
The importance of country context is central to thinking about improving health outcomes, especially in the transferability of health care solutions from one place to another. We need to ask …
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 …
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 …
Donor funding for women’s and children’s health
In 2017, Grollman and colleagues have conducted an analysis of selected donor funding for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health worldwide for the period 2003-2013. This work forms part of …
Stunting: causes, consequences, trends and treatments
The WHO defines stunting as a failure to reach one’s linear (height) growth potential. Stunting is the most common form of malnutrition globally, affecting a quarter of all children under …
Summary of Week 6 and the course
We have now reached the end of the course. Over the past six weeks we have heard from a broad range of experts who have described the health status of …
Next steps
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health, with over 4000 students and more than 1000 …
Moving beyond survival to include child development
We must extend our aims beyond simply reducing mortality and give the increasing numbers of children surviving an opportunity to thrive as well. In the video, Dr Marko Kerac indicates …
Global strategy
Where does the health of women, children and adolescents fit in the context of the SDGs, and how does it link to global strategy? Of the 17 new SDGs there …
Improved Child Survival Rates in Tanzania
Tanzania has achieved its target for the Millennium Development Goal 4 for child survival, yet seen slower progress in reducing newborn and maternal deaths. This case study, summarised by Corinne …
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Improving the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents: from Evidence to Action