Maternal, newborn, and child health and the Sustainable Development Goals--a call for sustained and improved measurement.
Maternal, newborn, and child health and the Sustainable Development Goals--a call for sustained and improved measurement.
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10.1016/s0140-6736(15)00517-6
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发表时间:
2015-10-17
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Kirkland Group
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Grove J;Claeson M;Bryce J;Amouzou A;Boerma T;Waiswa P;Victora C;Kirkland Group
Immunisation is one of the great global health successes of th e past century, with millions of lives saved. 1 Ensuring vaccination of millions of children is complex, but is made possible by one fundamental task: systematic counting at multiple levels and at frequent intervals. From charts in thousands of rural health posts, to databases in ministries of health, to standardised surveys and global reports from WHO, UNICEF, and GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, a robust interconnected system of data collection and use enables health workers, programme managers, and global actors to track who is vaccinated and make course corrections as needed to improve performance, policies, and programmes.Similar large-scale and long-term gains have been made against malaria by way of highly aligned and coordinated global measurement strategies linked to programmes. 2 These characteristics were also a prominent feature of the successful global diarrhoeal disease control programme of the 1980s and early 1990s. 3 “The Three Ones”(ie, one action framework, one national coordinating authority, and one countrylevel monitoring and evaluation system) for HIV promoted harmonised measurement plans that were made possible by an aggressive global capacity-building effort. 4 In maternal, newborn, and child health, the counting is more difficult than in some other parts of global health, but has never been more crucial. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for major reductions in maternal, neonatal, and child mortality and universal access to sexual and reproductive health services by 2030. 5 These aims require further expansion in coverage, quality, and measurement of effective interventions.