Table 7 Top 10 newborn health SBCE research priorities
Rank | Newborn health research priority |
|---|---|
1 | Understand the determinants of the low adoption of family care practices and care-seeking behaviour for routine newborn care and for complications and improve the delivery of approaches to address these determinants |
2 | Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to health education, to increase women’s knowledge and foster appropriate care seeking for complications during pregnancy, to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes |
3 | Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to address gender inequity and to foster women’s empowerment and agency to improve their health and the health of their newborns |
4 | Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches (both in the community and at health-care facilities) to promote the provision of appropriate nutrition for newborns and children (including sick and vulnerable newborns) by caregivers and families to address hunger and malnutrition |
5 | Understand the determinants of early, exclusive and continued breastfeeding and find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to address these determinants, particularly at the community level |
6 | Understand the determinants of health-worker behaviours and performance (including both facility- and community-based health workers) that affect acceptability and utilisation of health services for newborns |
7 | Improve the delivery of approaches that engage community members in reducing the social and cultural factors that cause delays in accessing appropriate maternal and newborn care (including skilled care at birth) |
8 | Improve the delivery of community-based newborn care approaches that impact on family care practices for the newborn, particularly in areas with low rates of facility-based births and skilled care at birth |
9 | Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to improve family care practices of preterm and low birth-weight babies |
10 | Find new approaches to foster effective male involvement in efforts to increase maternal, newborn and child well-being and access to care |