Introduction, Development and Goals of MCH Services

Subject: Community Health Nursing II

Overview

Health of women throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period is referred to as maternal health. In order to preserve or improve the health of families and communities overall, health promotion and prevention strategies/services should be implemented to improve the health of mothers, children, and adolescents. MCH's first goal is to guarantee low-income women and children have access to care. 2. Lower infant mortality rates. 3. Make certain there is thorough prenatal and postnatal care. 4. Ensure that children receive proper health evaluation, diagnosis, and care.

Maternal and child health services

Maternal health

  • Health of women throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period is referred to as maternal health.
  • Too many women link motherhood with pain, sickness, and even death in certain cases.

Maternal and child health program

  • In order to maintain or improve the health of families and communities overall, health promotion and prevention strategies/services should be implemented to improve the health of mothers, children, and adolescents.

Objectives of MCH services

  • Mortality and morbidity rates for women, pregnant women, babies, and children are decreased.
  • Fostering good reproductive health
  • Promotion of a child's and adolescent's physical and mental growth within the family.

Development of maternal and child health service

History

  • Each year, approximately 4 million newborns die during the first 28 days of life, and over 500,000 women pass away from conditions associated to pregnancy and childbirth.
  • Millions more experience illness, injury, infection, and incapacity.
  • There are affordable solutions that could result in a quick improvement, but they need to be implemented quickly and with a commitment if the millennium development goals for maternal and child health are to be met.
  • The first maternal and child welfare program was launched in 1950, along with the management of family planning by INGOs and NGOs.
  • It began in government in 1960.
  • The safe motherhood conference took place in Nairobi, Kenya, in February 1987. WHO, the World Bank, UNFPA, and UNDP sponsored this international conference.
  • This conference claims that a committee was established in 1991 to study the safe motherhood program.
  • The safe motherhood program began in Nepal in 1993 with 10 districts, and it has since been expanded to additional districts.

Goals of MCH

  • Ensure that low-income women and children have access to care.
  • decrease in neonatal mortality
  • Provide thorough prenatal and postnatal care.
  • Ensure that children receive proper diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment.
  • Ensuring access to rehabilitation and preventative treatments.
  • Assure a community-based, family-centered system of integrated care.
  • Free phone numbers to call for help applying for services.

REFERENCE

Dr.Suwal S.N. & Tuitui R. (2063) A Textbook of Community Health Nursing, 1st edition, Vidyarthi Prakashan (P). Ltd. Kamalpokhari, Kathmandu

Endres J.B & Rockwell R.E. (1985), 2nd edition, Food, Nutrition & the Young Child, Times Mirror/ Mosby College Publishing, Toronto, USA

GN Pravakara, 2004, Textbook of Community Health for Nurses, 1st edition

Giri R.K., 2007, 1st edition, A Textbook of Foundation of Health Education and Primary Health Care

Prabhakara GN, 2004 (reprint 2005), Textbook of Community Health for Nurses, Peepe Publishers & Distributers (P) Ltd. India
Things to remember
  • Health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period is referred to as maternal health.
  • In order to maintain or improve the health of families and communities overall, health promotion and prevention strategies/services should be implemented to improve the health of mothers, children, and adolescents.

Objectives of MCH services

  • Mortality and morbidity rates for women, pregnant women, babies, and children are decreased.
  • Fostering good reproductive health
  • Promotion of a child's and adolescent's physical and mental growth within the family.
Questions and Answers

Health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period is referred to as maternal health.

Objectives of MCH services

  • Mortality and morbidity rates for women, pregnant women, babies, and children are decreased.
  • Fostering good reproductive health.
  • Promotion of a child's and adolescent's physical and mental growth within the family.

Development of Maternal and Child Health Service

History

  • Each year, approximately 4 million newborns die during the first 28 days of life, and over 500,000 women pass away from conditions associated to pregnancy and childbirth.
  • Millions more experience illness, injury, infection, and incapacity.
  • There are affordable solutions that could result in a quick improvement, but their implementation and the achievement of the millennium development goals for maternal and child health demand urgency and dedication.
  • The first maternal and child welfare program was launched in 1950, along with the management of family planning by INGOs and NGOs.
  • It began in government in 1960.
  • The safe motherhood conference took place in Nairobi, Kenya, in February 1987. WHO, the World Bank, UNFPA, and UNDP supported this worldwide conference.
  • This conference claims that a committee was established in 1991 to evaluate the safe motherhood program.
  • The safe motherhood initiative began in Nepal in 1993 with 10 districts, and it has since been expanded to additional districts.

Goals of MCH

  • Ensure that low-income women and children have access to care.
  • Decrease in neonatal mortality
  • Provide thorough prenatal and postnatal care.
  • Ensure that children receive proper diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment.
  • Ensuring access to rehabilitation and preventative treatments.
  • Assure a community-based, family-centered system of integrated care.
  • Free phone numbers to call for help applying for services.

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