New Trends and Approaches in the Delivery of Maternal and Child Care in Health Services

Book : New Trends and Approaches in the Delivery of Maternal and Child Care in Health Services

Language : English

Library : Social Phsician

Publish Place : Geneva

ISBN : 92 4 120600 4

Publish Date : 00 1976

Publisher : World Health Organization WHO

Book Type : Report

Book Number : 3615

INDEX


CONTENTS

1. Introduction ............................
2. The health status of mothers and children : present situation and recent trends
3. Social and environmental changes ..................
3 . 1 Social changes ........................
3 . 2 Environmental changes ....................
3.2.1 Urbanization .....................
3.2.2 Rural areas ......................
4. Content of MCH care and priorities .................
4.1 MCH care at various stages of development ...........

4.2 Health education in the delivery of MCH care ..........
4.3 An integrated approach in the delivery of the MCH care " package "
4.4 Priority content of MCH care .................
4.4.1 Nutrition protection and promotion ..........
4.4.2 Infections : prevention and management ..........
4.4.3 Family planning ....................
4.4.4 Breat feeding .
5. Delivery of MCH care within the health care system (service aspects) 5.1 Primary level : utilization of community resources .........
5.2 Intermediate level .......................
5.3 Central level .........................
5.4 Some aspects of MCH care delivery in developed countries .....
6. Intersectoral coordination ......................
7. Health service manpower development for MCH care ..........
7 . 1 Determination of health manpower needs ............
7 . 2 Training of various categories of health care personnel in MCH 7.3 Training priorities.......................
7.3.1 Primary health care workers...............
7.3.2 In-service training...................
7.3.3 Basic training.....................
7.3.4 Postgraduate training..................
7.3.5 Constraints on improvement of curricula to meet programme requirements .....................
8. Research needs ..........................
9. Recommendations.........................
Annex. Recent trends in the health status of mothers and children.....