Who fact sheet on newborn mortality, including key facts, causes, priority strategies, newborn care and who response. Enhancing neonatal survival and health. A newborn infant, or neonate, refers to a baby in the first 28 days of life, a period marked by the highest risk of morbidity and mortality.
To ensure every child survives and thrives to reach their full potential, we must focus on improving care around the time of birth and the first week of life. Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and ageing we lead who’s work on the life course so that every pregnant woman, mother, newborn, child, adolescent, and older person. The world health organization in collaboration with partners around the world has developed a second edition of the essential newborn care course.
Babies have the right to be protected from injury and infection, to breathe.