The WHO Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (MCA) leads WHO’s work on the life course aiming at ensuring that every pregnant woman, mother, newborn, child, adolescent, and older person will survive, thrive and enjoy health and well-being.
Its key functions are to provide leadership, advocacy and partnership coordination to address population-specific health needs and barriers to equity across the life course, and to reduce risk factors through multisectoral action, generate and synthesize evidence and develop normative guidelines for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, develop and support the adoption of human rights-based policies and strategies across the life course to support service delivery and drive country impact and monitor and measure progress in implementation and the impact of strategies on survival, health, growth and development.
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