title: Greater Manchester: reducing infant mortality and promoting child health.
abstract: Targeting services in order to reduce health inequalities is a key national priority.This paper describes a project funded by the Greater Manchester Public Health Network looking at service provision to reduce infant mortality and promote child health across Greater Manchester. The aim of this was to improve standards of care by setting a standard service provision for targeting services toward the most deprived groups. It involved the production of child health indicators, a literature review, standard setting, dissemination of findings, collation of data and production of a service pathway for breastfeeding, smoking cessation, nutrition and postnatal depression.
authors.affiliation: Stockport Primary Care Trust.
authors.forename: Caroline A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Danita
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wilmott
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baker
mesh_terms: D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration