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Improving the implementation of kangaroo mother care

OtherWorld Health Organization2021
  • Breast milk and breastfeeding
  • Comfort and nursing care
  • Developmental care and positioning
  • Family-integrated care
  • Medical
  • Nursing
  • Postnatal and transitional care
  • Thermoregulation

Summary

A World Health Organization document on improving the implementation of kangaroo mother care for small and preterm newborns. Without an abstract, its exact scope is unclear, but it likely addresses health system barriers, facilitators and approaches to scaling up skin-to-skin care. Themes are likely to include family involvement, thermal care and breastfeeding support. Relevant to neonatal medical and nursing staff and service planners.

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