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WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience (2022)

The 2022 WHO guideline on routine care for mothers and babies in the weeks after birth, in any country and any setting. It brings together 63 recommendations on care of the mother, care of the newborn, and health systems and health promotion, including a schedule of at least four contacts in the first six weeks.

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Overview

Technical summary

Edition 2022 (ISBN 978-92-4-004598-9; licence CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO). The who.int page date is 30 March 2022, which the atlas uses for WHO sources; the WHO IRIS record 10665/352658 lists an issue date of 2022-03-29. The PDF says it is an update of a document published in 2014. Of its 63 recommendations, 31 are newly developed and 32 are integrated from existing WHO guidelines. This atlas records Recommendations 1, 25, 44, 45, 46 and 48 as claims on the postnatal care page, and two remarks on danger signs on the warning signs page. A corrigendum dated 26 May 2022 on the WHO page sits beside the separate web supplement on the evidence base, which was not read. Whether a later edition replaces this guideline was not checked.

About this guideline

Edition
2022
Published
2022-03-30
Status
Not checked for a newer edition
Scope
Routine postnatal care for women and newborns, in facility- or community-based settings of any resource level.

Source

Document
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience
Publisher
World Health Organization
Edition note
First edition, 2022. The date is the who.int page date, 30 March 2022, which the atlas uses for WHO sources and decisions; the WHO IRIS record 10665/352658 lists an issue date of 2022-03-29 for the same document. The English PDF was read from IRIS (bitstream 73dec697-c033-449c-8323-1cd04a8d8f20). The who.int page lists a corrigendum dated 26 May 2022 beside the web supplement on the evidence base (ISBN 978-92-4-004617-7), not beside the guideline; the corrigendum (mk-who-9789240046177-corrigendum.pdf) changes one source citation on page 93 of that supplement, and the supplement was not read.

Recommendations

No recommendation in this atlas names this guideline yet.

Record details

Record id
maternal:guideline-who-2022-postnatal-care
Content hash
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