There are many organizations around the world that help contribute to better the lives of people around us. One example of an organization designed to help others is the Freedom of Breath, Foundation of Life: China’s Neonatal Resuscitation Program. “Birth asphyxia occurs before, during or just after birth, when a baby is deprived of oxygen. Though previous collaborative efforts attempted to bring lifesaving technology to select regions of China, the Freedom of Breath, Foundation of Life multi-sector partnership was the first to successfully implement the China Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) in a systematic and sustainable way across the country through governmental, professional and private enterprise collaboration” (Alliance for Case Studies for Global Health, n.d.). This was particularly important to these partners because birth asphyxia is the number one leading cause of infant mortality throughout Chinese cities.
Question 2
The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) contained several challenges. Primarily, the Americans Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) had a difficult time establishing NRP back in
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(Mastandrea, 2009, p. 207) Although it took several collaborative efforts to accept the fact that their care givers where not properly trained in this area and “the Freedom of Breath, Foundation of Life multi-sector partnership was the first to successfully implement the China Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)…” (Mastandrea, 2009, p. 207) With this training implemented “the rate of birth asphyxia [was] declined by more than a third, from 4.26 percent in 2003 to 2.61 percent in 2007.” (Mastandrea, 2009, p.209) A nurse from NCWCH, named Tao Xu went on to express that “the program is saving lives and improving the health of women and children” in China. (Mastandrea, 2009,