This is unacceptable when we know that in 99 per cent of the cases death can easily be prevented with basic, cost-effective prenatal and postnatal care like providing antibiotics and warm wrappings; neonatal resuscitation; umbilical cord care; support on hygiene, skin care and breastfeeding; and most important, the identification of newborn infections.

Fostering innovation in the field of public health interventions, prevention strategies, health system management and in the organisation and provision of health services and medical care, including health promotion and disease prevention interventions, has the potential to improve public health outcomes, enhance the quality of care to patients and respond to unmet needs, and also to foster the competitiveness of stakeholders and to improve the cost-efficiency and sustainability of health services and medical care.

adequate clinical experience gained in approved institutions allowing the midwife to be able, independently and under his own responsibility, to the extent necessary and excluding pathological situations, to manage the antenatal care, to conduct the delivery and its consequences in approved institutions, and to supervise labour and birth, postnatal care and neonatal resuscitation while awaiting a medical practitioner.

As Elly mentioned before, and as Canada has agreed, the basket includes services such as: access to voluntary family planning information services and commodity, thereby empowering women to voluntarily plan their families and giving them the freedom to decide what method is most appropriate for them; antenatal care, so intermittent prevention of malaria; folic acid and iron; any other tetanus vaccinations; skilled attendance at birth, including emergency obstetrical care—we know that the majority of women are dying during the pregnancy and the childbirthing period—for postpartum hemorrhage, obstructed labour, those issues; immediate postpartum care for ...[+++]the mother and newborn, because most children will die within the first day, or subsequently the first month of life, and then the first year.

This approach includes improving access to antenatal care during pregnancy, improved management of normal delivery by skilled attendants, access to emergency obstetric and neonatal care when needed, and timely postnatal care for both mothers and newborns.

Quality, efficiency and solidarity of health care systems including transitional health care systems and home-care strategies: to translate effective interventions into management decisions, to assess the cost, efficiency and benefits of different interventions including with regard to patient safety, to define the needs and conditions for an adequate supply of human resources, to analyse factors influencing equity of access to high-quality health care (also by disadvantaged groups), including analyses of changes in population (e.g. ageing, mobility and migration, and the changing workplace).