Introduction Trends, Significance, and Rationale Understanding the diseases that affect maternal and child health (MCH) is a global public health concern. Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period while child health specifically refers to physical, mental and social well-being of a child (World Health Organization, 2014). MCH is a dynamic field that aims to improve the health of women, children, youth, and entire families and communities
It is well recognized that maternal healthcare is essential for further improvement of maternal and child health. Maternal and child health services is said to play a vital role in achieving improved health outcomes. The decision to use health care is undoubtedly influence by the characteristics of the health delivery system such as the availability and accessibility of the services. However, this does not necessarily mean that where there is a good supply of services, demand is created in and of
population dynamics, food security and access to resources. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) would not be reached without universal access to reproductive health. This realization led to a new target (Target 5B) being added to MDG 5 (Improve Maternal Health) in 2007. Family planning is an important constituent of reproductive health, recognized by the fact that measures of progress for MDG 5 now include Contraceptive
dengue vaccination in Barangay Munting Pulo help in addressing the number of dengue cases among children aged 1 to 10 and foster maternal care for dengue patients? Thesis Statement: Free dengue vaccination program in each barangay is a great aid and help to lessen the number of dengue cases, to spread awareness about the effects of dengue and to teach people the importance of having a clean environment. Introduction: “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
The events of human life like births, deaths, foetal deaths, divorce, marriages, adoptions, legitimations, annulments and legal separations are vital events. The statistics derived from registration of these vital events is ‘vital statistics’. These are “the facts, systematically collected and compiled in numerical form, relating to or derived from records of vital events”. In a broader sense, vital statistics is the collection, organization, analysis and interpretation of data on vital events. The
The Gujarati traditional food is mainly vegetarian and has a high nutritious value. The characteristic of Gujarati Thali contains of varied types of lip spanking dishes. Gujarati cooking has so much to proposal and each dish has an categorically different food style. Some of the plates are mixing fry, while others are cooked. Gujarati food is more frequently served on a silvery dish. Gujarati use a mixture of different spices and tastes to cook their lunchtimes and this is what makes their food really
IDENTIFICATION OF CONCEPT 1. Health promotion 2. Disease and injury prevention 3. Ensuring evidence-based practice 4. Public health practices as related to the individual, family and the community 5. Ensuring environmental health 6. Importance of healthcare economics in public healthcare management. 7. Interpersonal communication among professionals 8. Ensuring emergency preparedness 9. Population focused assessment 10. Development of health care policy. HEALTH PROMOTION SIGNIFICANCE
contribution of malnutrition – even moderate malnutrition – to child mortality is high: 56.0% of all deaths amongst children are associated with malnutrition”(Randstad 1998, p. 7). Sub-Saharan Africa is not excludedfrom the urgent public health problem of malnutrition and governments and private institutions need to act to ensure that the region is productive and self-reliant. The importance of
pregnancies of her mother Kasturi. Belonging to a high-minded Punjabi family, she is conditioned to think that it is the duty of a girl to get married and is duly engaged to a boy selected by the family. But in the delay in marriage caused by two deaths in the family, she asserted herself to study at AS College as the seventh girl in a class of four hundred boys. Prof Harish their neighbour was the teacher and he noticed her „flower like‟ appearance and forced himself into her mind, laying at her
nurses’. Public health nurse’s areas of care vary from wound dressing clinics to postnatal home visits. Placement in this area involved experiences such as the addiction clinic, breastfeeding clinic and first postnatal visits. These areas are of importance to the maternity services due to the fact that we are members of the multidisciplinary team, and postnatal care begins within our services. Exposure to care of this nature allows us as students to gather the whole picture