Beyond Survival
The Beyond Survival study followed women in low-resource settings in Kenya from delivery into the postpartum period to understand how complications during childbirth affect health trajectories for mothers, newborns, and households.
New Resource: Beyond Survival Overview
Citations for “Innovations to Build On”
REDUCING SEPARATION
(1)Sk MH, Chaudhuri S, Saha B. Implementing the practice of early skin-to-skin contact among infants ≥34 weeks gestation born by caesarean section: A quality improvement study. J Neonatal Perinatal Med. 2025 Sep;18(5):484-490. doi: 10.1177/19345798251349219. Epub 2025 Jun 17. PMID: 40524677.(2)Brimdyr, K., Mbalinda, S.N., Blair, A. et al. The impact of implementing and sustaining the international guidelines for skin-to-skin contact in the first hour after birth in Uganda. Sci Rep 14, 32042 (2024).
CONTINUITY OF CARE
Vatsa R, Chang W, Akinyi S, Little S, Gakii C, Mungai J, Kahumbura C, Wickramanayake A, Rajasekharan S, Cohen J, McConnell M. Impact evaluation of a digital health platform empowering Kenyan women across the pregnancy-postpartum care continuum: A cluster randomized controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2025 Feb 3;22(2):e1004527. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004527.
RESPECTFUL CARE
Shimpuku Y, Madeni FE, Horiuchi S, Kubota K, Leshabari SC. A family-oriented antenatal education program to improve birth preparedness and maternal-infant birth outcomes: A cross sectional evaluation study. Reprod Health. 2019 Jul 16;16(1):107.
FEATURED
Beyond survival: The impact of birth complications on postpartum wellbeing for mothers, babies, and households in Kenya
The BetterBirth Team and their partners at KEMRI Wellcome Trust and the University of Oxford published the results from their mixed methods study at three county referral hospitals in Kenya to explore the impact of birth complications on mothers’ and families’ postpartum experiences and wellbeing.
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