Table 7

How Preterm Birth and Stillbirth Interventions Fit In Broader Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Context

Cost-Effective Against Preterm Birth, Stillbirth, or both?


Cost-Effective Against Maternal, Newborn and Child Deaths?

Yes

No


Yes

• Continue to promote

• Use the evidence on stillbirth/preterm birth for further advocacy

• Continue to Promote

No

• Advocate for implementation •

• Promote operational research for scaling up

• Promote further research on the overall impact against MNC deaths

• If the intervention is widely used, advocate for discontinuing implementation


Victora et al. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2010 10(Suppl 1):S4   doi:10.1186/1471-2393-10-S1-S4

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