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The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on Essential Newborn Care. This course will orient the learner to key technical and programmatic concepts in the provision of care that is essential to all newborns.

Photo Credit: Copyright 2005 Ye Tun Oo, Courtesy of Photoshare. A newborn infant girl (one day old) in Myanmar
This course covers topics such as:
  • Newborn mortality

  • Care during labor and birth

  • Newborn care following birth – immediate and later care

as well as:

  • Infant feeding

  • Household-to-Hospital Continuum

  • Programatic aspects such as indicators, myths, and realities

This course can be taken in conjunction with the campanion course Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care.

What others are saying about this eLearning course:
"This is a wonderful course! It hits the target beautifully of presenting the basics of newborn care to programmatic people. I liked the ordering of the chapters; they flow from one to the next very nicely. The material is solidly evidence-based. The essential issues related to newborn care are all included."

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