Office of Health Publications Save the Children's Office of Health seeks to facilitate and promote sustained improvements in health status, with special attention given to the needs of women and children, and especially poor and marginalized populations.  As such, we seek to share and communicate about our research and program activities.  Key publications are listed alphabetically below and are available to download.  For more information, please contact slakepos@savechildren.org. Key Publications Maternal and Newborn Health and Nutrition State of the World's Mothers 2008 - Closing the Survival Gap for Children Under 5 (PDF 450KB) Bringing Care Closer to Mothers and Newborns: Using the GAP to Develop HH Continuum of Care, ACCESS, February 2006 (PDF 249KB) Demystifying Community Mobilization: An Effective Strategy to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health, ACCESS, February 2007, (PDF 439KB) Home and Community-Based Health Care for Mothers and Newborns, ACCESS, September 2006, (PDF 801KB) Household-to-Hospital Continuum of Maternal and Newborn Care, ACCESS, October 2005 (PDF 881KB) State of the World's Mothers: 2007-Saving the Lives of Children Under 5, 2006-Saving the Lives of Mothers and Newborns, 2004-Children Having Children  Child Health and Nutrition U.S. Leadership Needed to Finish the Child Survival Agenda: Sharper Focus and Further Funding Can Save Children's Lives, September 2005 (PDF 2,021KB) Adolescent Health and Nutrition Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Update Newsletter, May 2007 (PDF 823KB) Male Motivator Training Curriculum: Using Male Motivators to Increase Family Planning Use Among Young Married Couples, October 2007,(PDF 535KB) School Health and Nutrition Program Updates and Newsletters, Fall 2007 Program Update (PDF 1,469), November 2006 (PDF 756KB), August 2005 (1,455KB), April 2004 (859KB) Cross-Cutting Publications Food and Nutrition Bulletin Supplement: The Positive Deviance Approach to Improve Health Outcomes: Experience and Evidence from the Field December 2002 (PDF 1,262KB) Office of Health Overview, May 2006 (PDF 3MB) Partnership Defined Quality: A toolbook for community and health provider collaboration for quality improvement-English, October 2005 (PDF 508KB) Taking Community Empowerment to Scale: Lessons from Three Successful Experiences, HCP, June 2007 (PDF 723KB) How to Mobilize Communities for Health and Social Change, May 2003: (content was sub-divided to minimize download time) - Cover  - Table of Contents - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4  - Chapter 5