Norms for scaling up small and sick newborn care: an overview of reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) currently have no benchmarks or 'norms' for scaling up small and sick newborn (SSN) service delivery in health facilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Our objective was to understand which systematic reviews had addressed the following norms in the last five years: number of SSN beds per live births in a district or similar administrative unit (admission beds); space requirements for SSN units, including mother-infant dyads (space); health workforce ratios in SSN units (workforce); and travel time to health facilities with SSN units (travel time).

Methods

We searched for systematic reviews of admission beds, space, workforce and travel time norms for SSN under 28 da

SUBMITTER: Strobel NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12635899 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature