Kangaroo mother care - Implementation strategy for scale-up adaptable to different country contexts
16 May 2023
| Global report
Overview
The KMC implementation strategy targets a broad audience. These include policy-makers and programme managers at national, regional and local levels, government and nongovernmental organizations working in the area of maternal and newborn care, global and national professional associations, public and private hospital management at all levels of care, and facility- and community-based maternal and infant care providers.
The purpose of developing the implementation strategy is to:
- guide countries in implementing KMC for all preterm or LBW infants, both well and sick, as the foundation of small and/or sick newborn care at different levels of care in the facility and community, according to their specific health system and cultural or social contexts;
- enunciate the programmatic principles for implementing KMC as an integral component of small and/or sick newborn care and the ways and means to achieve them.
WHO Team
Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health & Ageing (MCA),
Newborn Health (NBH),
Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE) for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition
Editors
WHO
Number of pages
47
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978-92-4-007163-6
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