strategy
Providing mother/child care
Synonyms:
Supplying maternal careProviding pregnancy services
Improving mother and child health care
Promoting maternal and child care
Supporting mother/child care
Promoting efficient maternal care
Providing maternal and child health care
Improving reliability of family clinics
Improving maternal and child health care
Description:
The aim is to set up an effective primary health care and maternal health care system accessible to all women and children. Context:
Almost half a million maternal deaths occur each year in developing countries. This could be greatly reduced by services to ensure pregnancy-related (prenatal, childbirth and postpartum) care.There is a direct link between the health and education of women and improvements in the health standards of children in developing countries. The [World Development Report 1993] of the World Bank reported that in most households, women manage everyday cleaning chores, prepare meals, feed and care for young children and look after the sick. Therefore, the health of mothers and their ability to utilize available resources have a strong influence on the health of other members of the family.
Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Narrower:
Promoting infant healthPromoting safe motherhoodAssisting women in labourEnsuring adequate pre-natal careEnsuring adequate post-natal careSupplying family planning servicesOrganizing working mother child-careIntroducing comprehensive child careUnderstanding initial phase of human developmentImproving health programmes to reduce infant mortality Facilitates:
Reducing child mortalityCaring for children's healthPromoting natural childbirthPreventing AIDS in the newbornEnsuring effective child rearingReducing maternal mortality ratesEnabling poor to achieve sustainable livelihood Facilitated by:
Educating womenEducating womenAffirming motherhoodTaking maternity leaveEducating in midwiferyResearching maternal/child careIdentifying obstacles to extended families Problems:
Inadequate maternal and child health careMaternal malnutrition
Negative effects of maternity
Neglected young children
Still-birth
Organizations:
World Health Organization International Association for Maternal and Neonatal Health International Federation for Family Health African Voluntary Organization for Child and Maternal Care European Midwives Association Women's International Public Health Network Pacific Basin Maternal and Child Health Resource Centre International Centre for Childhood and the Family Mother and Child African Relief Organization African Charitable Society for Mother and Child Care Parent Care Subjects:
Medicine → Reproductive systemSociety → Infants
Society → Family
Society → Maternity, paternity
Social Activity → Services
Communication → Promotion
Commerce → Purchasing, supplying
Research, Standards → Quality unification
Health Care → Hospitals
Health Care → Care
Cybernetics → Cybernetics
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
