Context Matters: Strategies to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa

Florina Serbanescu; Margaret E Kruk; Sunday Dominico; Kojo Nimako

doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00119

Context Matters: Strategies to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa

Glob Health Sci Pract. 2022 Apr 29;10(2):e2200119. doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00119. Print 2022 Apr 28.

Authors

Florina Serbanescu¹, Margaret E Kruk², Sunday Dominico³, Kojo Nimako⁴

Affiliations

¹ U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Reproductive Health, Atlanta, GA, USA. fxs7@cdc.gov.
² Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Thamini Uhai, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁴ Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Team (Consultant), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Accra, Ghana.

Abstract

Identifying context-appropriate features to maximize the effectiveness of maternal and newborn health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa is a prerequisite to successful programs.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Africa South of the Sahara
Health Services*
Humans
Infant Health*
Infant, Newborn