What we do
What we have achieved
- National guidelines for the management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia developed.
- National maternal mortality/morbidity surveillance system (syndromic approach and alert system) upgraded.
- Virtual consultation for patients in need of intensive care provided.
- Robson classification of caesarean section integrated in maternal health.
What is next
- Developing a national comprehensive programme package on infertility in line with WHO reproductive and maternal health updated guidelines.
- Piloting implementation of national eclampsia and pre-eclampsia guidelines.
- Progressing towards universal health coverage and access to equitable and quality intensive care for pregnant women hospitalized in underprivileged provinces/districts through telemedicine initiatives (collaborative work with technical support from the Robert Koch Institute of Germany).
- Operationalizing an upgraded and integrated maternal mortality/morbidity surveillance system, initially through pilot implementation.
What we do
» Child and Neonatal Health
Islamic Republic of Iran has made great progress in reducing newborn and child mortality over the past few decades. The country has already reached the SDG targets for neonatal and under-5 mortality. There are well established birth registry and mortality surveillance systems for neonates and children aged 1–59 months, and the hospitalization profile for neonates is fully functional countrywide. The main concern is discrimination between morbidity and mortality rates in different provinces. The national child health programme needs additional support to scale up child development and care.
Activities with the collaboration of national counterparts are being conducted.
- Neonatal mortality surveillance, birth registry and hospitalization surveillance has been reviewed and upgraded.
- The mortality surveillance system for infants and children (1–59 months) has been reviewed and upgraded.
- Virtual training in the neonatal health programme during the COVID-19 pandemic has been documented.
What we have achieved
- Improved capacities and systems to detect public health concerns for child and neonatal health by reviewing and updating the Surveillance system of neonatal mortality, birth registry and hospitalization in 2019.
- Review and upgrade of the national under-5 (1–59 months) mortality surveillance system in 2021.
What is next
- Development of self-care package to improve awareness to respond to COVID-19 for children, adolescents and school self-care (and media content).
What we do
What we have achieved
- Review of health system building blocks of the elderly completed in 2019.
- Development of a model for establishing Universities of the Third Age (U3A) to address the social determinants of health and quality of life among older persons.
- Development of a model for establishing universities of the third age (U3A) in Islamic Republic of Iran to promote quality of life among older persons.
- Development of a family caregiver's manual: a community- based care practical guide for older adults.
- Development of an evidence-based management framework and protocol for elderly health in Islamic Republic of Iran. The first phase was conducted in 2021 and the project will be end by mid-2023.
What is next
- Evidence-based management framework and protocol for elderly health in Islamic Republic of Iran will be complete.
- Strengthening Well-being programmes for older people strengthened.
- Development of digital health technologies for older people to reduce preventable deaths and address health and development needs.
- An adapted executive model and implementation of the “Universities of the Third Age” to develop communities that foster the abilities of older people and maintain environments that are age friendly will be developed.