Executive summary The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the need for well-functioning
primary health care (PHC) into sharp focus. PHC is the best platform for providing basic …

Executive summary Despite dramatic improvements in survival, nutrition, and education over
recent decades, today's children face an uncertain future. Climate change, ecological …

Sexual and reproductive health care encompasses a broad range of services that ensure
people can decide whether and when to have children, experience safe pregnancy and …

Executive summary Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are fundamental to
people's health and survival, to economic development, and to the wellbeing of humanity …

Every year, more than 2 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast or cervical
cancer, yet where a woman lives, her socioeconomic status, and agency largely determines …

Building on long-term benefits of early intervention (Paper 2 of this Series) and increasing
commitment to early childhood development (Paper 1 of this Series), scaled up support for …

Background Depression and anxiety disorders are highly prevalent and disabling disorders,
which result not only in an enormous amount of human misery and lost health, but also lost …

In this Series paper, we review trends since the 2005 Lancet Series on Neonatal Survival to
inform acceleration of progress for newborn health post-2015. On the basis of multicountry …

Progress in newborn survival has been slow, and even more so for reductions in stillbirths.
To meet Every Newborn targets of ten or fewer neonatal deaths and ten or fewer stillbirths …

To improve maternal health requires action to ensure quality maternal health care for all
women and girls, and to guarantee access to care for those outside the system. In this paper …