1000 Days and 1000 nights – Time to make childbirth safer (April 2021)

Summary

This article, published in The Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, Albert Wu argues a focus on maternal and newborn safety are critical to getting a strong start in the first 1000 days.

"Simply providing skilled care to mothers during pregnancy, during and after birth would contribute greatly. But families and communities concerned about the quality of local services may still need to be convinced that such care is needed. And there is a continued need identify additional factors that can save lives in childbirth and to improve systems to address them."