Progress towards Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) implementation in Iran: obstacles and bottlenecks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neonatal mortality accounts for more than 47% of deaths among children under five globally but proper care at and around the time of birth could prevent about two-thirds of these deaths. The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) offers a plan and vision to improve and achieve equitable and high-quality care for mothers and newborns. We applied the bottleneck analysis tool offered by ENAP to identify obstacles and bottlenecks hindering the scale-up of newborn care across seven health system building blocks.

Methods

We applied the every newborn bottleneck analysis tool to identify obstacles hindering the scale-up of newborn care across seven health system building blocks. We used qualitative methods to collect data from five medical universities and their corresponding h

SUBMITTER: Mirbaha-Hashemi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8127274 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature