Warmth, Food and Security – Triad of Neonatal Care and Safety

Abstract

This chapter deals with the first month of life of the newborns in India. Although it is a global issue, the chapter focuses on the issue giving the history, perspective, current situation, and the future of newborns in India. Being the second most populous country in the world, the lessons learnt from India on neonatal care can be adopted by other countries. The application of the neonatal care on a large scale in India has been slow and gradual as it needs a multidimensional strategy. The neonatal care is at two poles. One at the in-reach and the other at the level of out-reach. The former is at the institutional level and the later at the institutional level. Both the concepts are detailed out in the chapter. The chapter also factors in the multiheaded dependent indicator, such as neonatal mortality rate, that impacts poverty, and thus social development. The chapter discusses the child survival interventions through the reduction of child mortality in India and aspires that India achieve the sustainable development goal related to child mortality.