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Mother and
child health
The health of mothers and children is central to global concerns,
and improvements in maternal and child survival are two important
Millennium Development Goals. Apart from the obvious linkages between
health programmes, mother and child health is intimately bound up
with economic development, education, gender issues and rights.
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This list gathers books, articles and online documents including
guidelines for appropriate infant feeding, nutritional interventions,
case studies from the developing world and background information
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Maternal survival toolkit [website]
CHANGE. Washington DC: Manoff Group, [Regularly updated].
This toolkit explores ways of influencing behaviours and encouraging use of health services and health professionals during childbirth and the postpartum period. A number of factors can prevent pregnant women from accessing skilled care, often putting themselves and the child at risk. They include availability of health services and high costs but also, and crucially, local culture, family and community behaviours and traditional practices [...] Key topics discussed include: seeking skilled care; seeking skilled care early postpartum; birth preparedness; providing skilled care. For each topic a summary is provided together with a range of useful tools and documents. This tool is aimed at organisations and individuals working in the field of mother and child health, and willing to look at maternal and child survival issues from a behaviour change perspective. |
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