Save the Children's Department of Health and Nutrition 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

• Adolescent Health and Nutrition
  Adolescent Defined Quality (ADQ): "Making Decisions" - A project with Adolescents and Youth Bolivia 2006-2009 October 2008 (PDF 161KB)
  Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Update Newsletter, May 2007 (PDF 823KB)
  Community Pathways to Improved Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A conceptual framework and suggested outcome indicators December 2007 (PDF 1.92 MB)
  Integrating Innovative Family Planning Strategies into an Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Program in Malawi September 2008 (PDF 1.15 MB)
  Male Motivator Training Curriculum: Using Male Motivators to Increase Family Planning Use Among Young Married Couples, October 2007,(PDF 535KB)
  Maximizing the Effectiveness of Partnership Defined Quality (PDQ): Technical Advisory Group Program Report Summary May 2008 (PDF 217KB)
  Partnership Defined Quality for Youth (PDQ-Y): A process manual for improving reproductive health services through youth-provider collaboration September 2008 (PDF 1.97 MB)
  School Health and Nutrition Program Updates and Newsletters, Fall 2007 Program Update (PDF 1,469), November 2006 (PDF 756KB)
  
• 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)
  
• Cross-Cutting Publications
  Department of Health and Nutrition Overview May 2009 (PDF 1.4KB)
  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
  
• Emergency Health and Nutrition
  Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings, A companion to the inter-agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings,
  September 2009 (PDF 3MB)
  
• Food Security
  
  
• Maternal and Newborn Health and Nutrition
  Creating Healthy Families in Nepal with USAID and CORE, March 2009 (PDF 923 KB)                                                                         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)
  Case Study: Introducing the Community-Based Distribution of Injectable Contraceptives in Uganda August 2008 (PDF 119KB)
  Case Study: Reintroducing the Intrauterine Device in the Mandiana District of Guinea August 2008 (PDF 117KB)
  Online Interview: Elements of Family Planning Success Initiative with Dr. Winifride Mwebesa, Save the Children's Senior Director Family Planning and Reproductive Health, May 2008
  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)
  Provision of Injectable Contraception Services through Community-Based Distribution: Implementation Handbook January 2008 (PDF 4.9MB)
  State of the World's Mothers: 2007-Saving the Lives of Children Under 5, 2006-Saving the Lives of Mothers and Newborns