Global Health
Technical and Policy Resources
Department of Global Health Publications
Save the Children's Global Health programs 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 by technical area, and are available to download.
Latest Publications
Adolescent Health
- Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights Update 2017 (PDF 1.7 MB)
- Save the Children: Puberty Education and Menstrual Hygiene Management 2016 (PDF 202 KB)
- Choices, Voices, Promises Brief: Empowering Very Young Adolescents to form Pro-Social Gender Norms 2015 (PDF 1.1 MB)
- VOICES Nepal Testimonial Videos 2015 (Youtube Channel)
- Sexuality Education 2014 (PDF 752 KB)
- Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health Factsheet 2013 (PDF 613 KB)
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings 2013 (PDF 899 KB)
- VOICES Guide: Using testimonials to influence parents' support for very young adolescents' gender equality in Nepal 2013 (PDF 1.9 MB)
- The Great Project 2011 (PDF 3.0 MB)
- Promises Manual: Influencing Parents' Behaviors to Increase Gender Equality for Children 2011 (PDF 3.0 MB)
- Integrating Innovative Family Planning Strategies into an Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Program in Malawi 2008 (PDF 1.15 MB)
- Partnership Defined Quality for Youth (PDQ-Y) 2008 (PDF 1.97 MB)
- Malawi Male Motivator Curriculum 2007 (PDF 5 MB)
- Real Father's Initiative (PDF 378 KB)
- Save the Children & Very Young Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: An Overview 2015 (PDF 544 KB)
Child Health and Nutrition
- Can a community health worker and a trained traditional birth attendant work as a team to deliver child health interventions in rural Zambia? 2014 (PDF 1.9 MB)
- Effectiveness of a smart phone app on improving immunization of children in rural Sichuan Province, China: study protocol for a paired cluster randomized controlled trial 2014 (PDF 1.8 MB)
- Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illness in Ethiopia 2014 (PDF 654 KB)
- Prevention and Management of Neonatal Hypothermia in Rural Zambia 2014 (PDF 768 KB)
- A proposed model to conduct process and outcome evaluations and implementation research of child health programs in Africa 2014 (PDF 1.3 MB)
- Routine monitoring systems for integrated community case management programs: lessons from 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa 2014 (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Setting global research priorities for integrated community case management (iCCM): Results from a CHNRI (Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative) exercise 2014 (PDF 1.2 MB)
- The use of counting beads to improve the classification of fast breathing in low-resource settings: a multi-country review 2014 (PDF 167 KB)
- The way forward for integrated community case management programmes: A summary of lessons learned to date and future priorities 2014 (PDF 1.2 MB)
- Contribution of community-based newborn health promotion to reducing inequities in healthy newborn care practices and knowledge: evidence of improvement from a three-district pilot program in Malawi 2013 (PDF 190 KB)
- Innovations in pneumonia diagnosis and treatment: a call to action on World Pneumonia Day 2013 (PDF 34.2 KB)
- Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Indicators for Global Tracking of Newborn Care 2013 (PDF 217 KB)
- Measuring teamwork and taskwork of community-based 'teams' delivering life-saving health interventions in rural Zambia 2013 (PDF 177 KB)
- Reaching Mothers and Babies with Early Postnatal Home Visits: The Implementation Realities of Achieving High Coverage in Large-Scale Programs 2013 (PDF 333 KB)
Cross-Cutting Publications
Community System Strengthening/SBCC
- Strengthening Community Capacity Field Guide 2010 (PDF 1.8 MB)
- How to Mobilize Communities for Improved Maternal and Newborn Health 2009 (PDF 2.3 MB)
- Taking Community Empowerment to Scale: Lessons from Three Successful Experiences 2007 (PDF 723 KB)
- Partnership Defined Quality: A toolbook for community and health provider collaboration for quality improvement-English 2005 (PDF 2.0 MB)
General
- 2015 Global Health & Nutrition Brochure 2015 (PDF 3.9 MB)
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
- WASH & Nutrition: Clean Household Approach 2015 (PDF 143 KB)
- WASH & Nutrition: Recent Research and the Save the Children Experience 2015 (PPTX 4.7 MB)
Emergency Health and Nutrition
- Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Toolkit 2015 (Toolkit 7.7 MB)
- Emergency Health & Nutrition - General Resources 2015 (Extra Resources)
- Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) Toolkit 2015 (Toolkit)
HIV and AIDS
- Assessment of Economic Strengthening and Risky Sexual Behavior among Vulnerable Women Groups in Selected Towns of Ethiopia, 2013 (PDF 185 KB)
- Save the Children and The Global Fund: Together Against HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria: Asia, 2013 (PDF 8.5 MB)
- Save the Children and The Global Fund Together Against HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria: Asia, Latin America, Africa, 2013 (PDF 2.8 MB)
- Final Project Report Zimbabwe PMTCT Grant (SHN)
- Saving Newborn Lives (PDF 462 KB)
Maternal and Reproductive Health
- Community-Based Access to Injectables in Guinea - Program Summary 2015 (PDF 399 KB)
- My First Baby Brief 2015 (PDF 339 KB)
- My First Baby Guide 2013 (PDF 1.4 MB)
- Maternal & Reproductive Health Factsheet 2013 (PDF 735 KB)
- Scaling Up Community Midwifery Education for Maternal and Newborn Health in Afghanistan - Program Summary 2013 (PDF 445 KB)
- Scaling up Hospital to Household Continuum of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health in Vietnam - Program Summary 2012 (PDF 240 KB)
- Provision of Injectable Contraception Services through Community-Based Distribution: Implementation Handbook 2008 (PDF 4.9 MB)
- FACT Project in EDEAN Factsheet (PDF 405 KB)
- FACT Project in Nepal Factsheet (PDF 379 KB)
- FACT Project in WALAN Factsheet (PDF 416 KB)
Newborn Health
- The Lancet Series on Stillbirths 2016 (External Toolkit)
- A New Look at Care in Pregnancy: Simple, effective Interventions for Neglected Populations 2016 (PDF 824 KB)
- What is kangaroo mother care? Systematic review of the literature 2016 (PDF 1.6 MB)
- Every Newborn Action Plan Progress Report 2015 (PDF 3.1 MB)
- Simplified Antibiotic Trial 2015 (PDF 209 KB)
- 2015 State of the World's Mothers Report - Traducción Español May 2015 (PDF 4.5 MB)
- Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality 2015 (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Ending Newborn Deaths 2014 (PDF 5.1 MB)
- Every Newborn Action Plan May 2014 (PDF 8.2 MB)
- Lancet Every Newborn Series 2014 (Extra Resources)
- Measuring Coverage in MNCH 2013 (PDF 217 KB)
- 2013 State of the World's Mothers Report May 2013 (PDF 4.6 MB)
- Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth 2012 (PDF 4.6 MB)
- Newborn survival: changing the trajectory 2012 (PDF 173 KB)
Nutrition
- Alive and Thrive Franchise Toolkit 2015 (PDF 3.5 MB)
- Alive and Thrive Support Group Toolkit 2015 (PDF 347 KB)
- ENGINE Project Profile 2015 (PDF 612 KB)
- NOURISH Factsheet 2012 (PDF 544 KB)
- Nutrition Factsheet 2015 (PDF 301 KB)
- SUAAHARA Husbands and Mothers-In-Law's Involvement Factsheet 2015 (PDF 226 KB)
- SUAAHARA Radio Program Design Document 2015 (PDF 2.3 MB)
- Mali Projet USAID Nutrition & Hygiene - Project Factsheet 2014 2014 (PDF 348 KB)
Multimedia Resources
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