Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and ageing

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.

In this portal you will find the most up to date global health data, including regional and country data organized separately in the areas of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and ageing.

These data exported into downloadable files or can be visualized on charts and maps. Several country profiles which collect indicators important to specific topic area are also available for viewing and downloading.

A searchable document repository containing close to 5,000 national laws, policies and guidelines related to SRMNCAH from approximately 140 countries is also accessible within this portal.

Finally, you will find helpful links to other departments within WHO and other UN agencies where additional data and information in specific areas of interest can be found.