This volume reports the proceedings of the third in a series of international meetings to examine a UN-funded project on International Maternal and Child Health/Family Planning Programs. The program was instituted in largely rural areas of 4 countries: Turkey Philippines Indonesia and Nigeria. Its ...
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s names and demographic information stored on a secure platform in REDCap. The data collection system is integral to the community nursing program and allows the assessment of the quality of clinical care delivered; the measurement of key maternal, neonatal, and child health metrics; and ...
In 2006, the Mozambique Ministry of Health (MOH) developed a National Plan to Improve the Quality and Humanization of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services that adopted a quality improvement methodology developed by Jhpiego. This methodology, called Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-...
This chapter describes the current state of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) in the Arab American community. In areas in which any (national or state) data are available to identify Arab Americans, there is evidence in some cases of disadvantage, advantag
Note: Stunting and wasting are defined as having a <−2.0 SD from the median of the reference population, based on the 2006 World Health Organization growth standards for a length-for-age z-score (LAZ) and weight-for-height z-score (WHZ). Maternal underweight is defined as a body mass...
The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) handbook is an integrated home-based record (HBR) designed to record in a single document all the information regarding health services provided to a pregnant woman and her child. The MCH handbook has the potential to support continuity of care which is key...
Although several interventions integrating maternal, neonatal, child health and nutrition with family planning have been implemented and tested, there is still limited evidence on their effectiveness to guide program efforts and policy action on health services integration. This study aims to assess the ...
The development of integrated community-based maternal neonatal and child health (MNCH) programmes is essential to address the gap in coverage of universal health care in sub-Saharan Africa, which bears the highest burden for poor MNCH outcomes globally. However, to assess their impact in practice...