Main description:

Each year there are 10 million deaths among newborns (including stillbirths), children, and adolescents, as well as from maternal causes. These deaths are mostly preventable with existing interventions - a major injustice in todays world. The vast majority happen in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, yet the dangers facing women and children are relevant everywhere. While middle- and high-income countries have lower mortality rates overall, there are still major
inequalities in outcomes within these countries. To improve health outcomes for women and children around the world, more data on the burden of disease and evidence of intervention effectiveness are crucial.

The Oxford Textbook of Global Health of Women, Newborns, Children, and Adolescents is the first comprehensive book on this topic. Written by experts in the field, this invaluable source takes a lifecourse approach to health. Following women from adolescence to motherhood, it covers sexual and reproductive health, HIV, pregnancy, mental health, and much more. Child development is traced from conception through to pregnancy, the newborn period, and into childhood and adolescence, with
topics including newborn care, nutrition, infections, and injuries. This comprehensive resource asks uncomfortable but necessary questions about the determinants of health, such as maltreatment, injury, and malnutrition, and looks at how to influence policy and inspire change.

Divided into eight sections and following the lifecourse, the Oxford Textbook of Global Health of Women, Newborns, Children, and Adolescents has a clear structure, helpful illustrations, and study questions in each chapter. Easy to use, it is the ideal textbook for students and practitioners in health care or global health. Looking to the future, it is also an invaluable starting point for policymakers and anyone with a general interest in the subject area. With practical case studies
and examples from high and low-resource settings, this book is a unique resource for those involved in women's and children's health everywhere.

Contents:

Section 1: Introduction
1: Mike Rowson: Women's and children's health in a changing world
2: Joy Lawn, Samantha Sadoo,: Strategies through the lifecycle to improve maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
3: Mike Rowson: Agencies and actors in women's and children's health
Section 2: Research Methods
4: Tim Colbourn: Research Methods and Evidence Based Medicine
5: Catherine Pitt, Josephine Borghi, Kara Hanson: Economic evaluation in global health
Section 3: Important concepts across the life course
6: Bernadette O'Hare, Sebastian Taylor: Social determinants of child health
7: Caroline Fall, Kalyanaraman Kumaran: Developmental origins of health and disease
8: Kate Mandeville, Ingrid Wolfe: Health Workers and Health Systems
9: Nicholas Watts: The environment and health
10: Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Aula Abarra: Conflict, Natural Disaster and the Humanitarian Response
Section 4: Adolescent health
11: Susan Sawyer, Suraya Abdul-Razak, George Patton: Introduction to Adolescent health
12: Saiqa Mullick: Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
13: Jackie Pitchforth, Dougal Hargreaves: Adolescent Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
14: Kelly Clarke, Silvia Yasuda, Atif Rahman: Adolescent mental health
15: Rashida Ferrand: Adolescent HIV and infection
16: Qingfeng Li, Adnan Hyder: Adolescent Injuries
17: Samantha Sadoo, David Ross: Strategies to improve adolescent health
Section 5: Women's health
18: Address Malata: Introduction to Maternal Health
19: Mags Beksinska, Jenni Smit, Chelsea Morroni Lavanya Pillay: Sexual and reproductive health
20: Jennifer Hall: Contraception and abortion
21: Abi Merriel, Raymond Kanthit, David Lissauer: Direct maternal Deaths
22: Heather Lytle, Beatrice Chikaphonya-Phiri, Abi Merriel: Indirect maternal deaths
23: Nynke van de Broek, Mary McCauley: Maternal morbidity
24: Delanjathan Devakumar, Patricia Rondo: Maternal nutrition
25: Rob Stewart, Selena Gleadow-Ware: Maternal mental health
26: Address Malata: Strategies to improve maternal health
Section 6: Newborn health
27: Samantha Sadoo, Hannah Blencowe, Shefali Oza, Joy Lawn: Introduction to newborn health
28: Hannah Blencowe, Samantha Sadoo, Joy Lawn: Stillbirth
29: Sarah Moxon, Samantha Sadoo , Tom Lissauer: Preterm births
30: Anne CC Lee, Saima Aftab, Lian Folger, Lauren Schaeffer: Intrapartum related events affecting the newborn
31: Anna Seale, Helen Brotherton: Neonatal Infection
32: Sowmi Moorthie: Congenital disorders
33: Gabriela Cormick, Nicole Minckas, Jose Belizan: Low Birth weight and poor fetal growth
34: Samantha Sadoo, Hannah Blencowe, Joy Lawn, Cally Tann: Strategies to improve newborn health and prevent stillbirths
Section 7: Child health
35: Dan Magnus, Sebastian Taylor, Bhanu Williams: Introduction to child health
36: Mark Lee, Bhanu Williams, Anupam Goenka: Child infection
37: Jonathan Wells: Child nutrition
38: Richard Rosch, Michelle Heyes, Hannah Kuper: Child development and disability
39: Jessica Mvula, Takondwa Chimowa, Elizabeth Molyneux, Bernadette O'Hare: Non-communicable diseases and childhood
40: Therese Hesketh: Children in difficult circumstances
41: Geoff Debelle, Qingfeng Li, Delan Devakumar: Child injury, maltreatment and safeguarding
42: Fred Martineau: Strategies to improve child health
Section 8: Influencing policy
43: Elizabeth Mason, Blerta Maliqi: Converting research into policy
44: Maureen Kelly: Ethics and rights
45: Tony Waterston: Advocacy in maternal and child health
46: David Osrin: Current challenges and debates for women's and children's health