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Maternal Health Task Force

The Maternal Health Task Force strives to create a strong, well-informed and collaborative community of individuals focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide.

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677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Developmental Care for High-Risk Newborns: Emerging Science, Clinical Application, and Continuity from Newborn Intensive Care Unit to Community

Neonatology has made astounding technological, pharmacologic, and intervention changes over the last 4 decades, resulting in the survival of earlier-born and sicker infants worldwide. However, the prevalence of major sensory and more subtle cognitive, communication, motor, and neurodevelopmental sequelae, both short and long term, have not shown similar levels of progress, especially in the very-low-birth weight and extremely low-birth weight categories.

Document 0: https://hsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/DevelopmentalCare_Browne_ResArt_2011.pdf

Document 1: https://hsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/DevelopmentalCare_Browne_ResArt_2011.pdf