Global perinatal health: accelerating progress through innovations, interactions, and interconnections.

摘要

In this issue of Seminars in Perinatology we examine global perinatal health, a timely topic in light of the unprecedented, high-level attention that has been given this past year to maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH; Table 1). Global economic powers, including governments and other donor agencies; the private sector, including multinational and national companies with a stake in MNCH; policy makers across high-, middle-, and low-income countries; academics; international and national civil society organizations, and program managers from governmental and nongovernmental organizations have met together at these various fora to assess progress, revise existing strategies, and launch new, innovative approaches to achieving a common vision for fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly MDG 4 for child survival and MDG 5 for maternal health.