Sentences with phrase «newborn health focuses»

The Association of Wholistic Maternal and Newborn Health focuses on the intersection of public health and midwifery to address healthcare disparities and to engender a more equitable maternity care system for all women and infants.

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Living Goods says that it «aim [s] to reduce under - five mortality by focusing on an ICCM + approach, [which] includes quality diagnosis and treatments for pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, encouraging prevention and healthy behaviors, and improving maternal and newborn health, especially in the perinatal period.»

They aim to reduce under - five mortality by focusing on treatments for pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, follow ups and referrals, providing pre-natal care, encouraging delivery in a facility, and improving newborn health through post-natal visits.

New research focusing on babies» health shows evidence of protective bacteria in newborns delivered vaginally.

By focusing on the choice between brands, the health ministry undermines breastfeeding and compromises the health of newborns.

Our analysis focused on personal details of the clients, reasons for leaving care prenatally, the rates and reasons for transfer to hospital during labour and post partum, medical interventions, health and admission to hospital of the newborn or mother from birth up to six weeks post partum, intrapartum and neonatal mortality, and breast feeding.

Broadening the focus from access to care to include quality of care, WHO and UNICEF are launching a Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health to cut preventable maternal and newborn illness and deaths, and to improve every mother's experience oNewborn and Child Health to cut preventable maternal and newborn illness and deaths, and to improve every mother's experience onewborn illness and deaths, and to improve every mother's experience of care.

Ensuring that pregnant women have access to at least four antenatal visits and improving access to emergency services when needed have been identified as key areas of focus in the fight to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes in the targeted countries.

While our Start Strong series focuses on pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care, Your Child's Health University are online courses designed for parents and their children through adolescence.

Having run a successful chiropractic practice for over a decade, focused on nutrition and women's health, Palmer's life became transformed in 1995 by the health challenges of her newborn son.

Dr. Lowe's research is focused on maximizing health and well - being of childbearing women, their newborns, and their families.

Focusing on health outcomes, particularly protection against sexually transmitted infections, rather than penile sensitivity, the American policy statement supports routine circumcision of newborn males, while the Canadian policy does not.

For starters, the PCC Community Wellness Center has turned the traditional well - baby visit — with its primary focus on the newborn — into a well - family visit that monitors the new mother's health as well.

The three packages (maternal and newborn health, child health and reproductive health) together comprise 66 proven health interventions that focus on a range of health problems.

The story of Lauren Bloomstein illustrates a disparity in our nation's health care system, where primary focus is given to newborn babies, but often ignores the mothers.

At the launch, Japan announced a five - year, $ 5 billion effort dedicated to maternal, newborn and child health, which will focus on the continuum of care ensuring that mothers and children have quality health coverage beginning at pregnancy and continuing on through the life of the child.

Using a public health frame, we will examine how three evidence - based home visiting models form a continuum of interventions directly addressing this challenge: (1) Family Connects provides nearly universal assessment of needs for families of newborns, with connection to community services (Karen O'Donnell, Duke University); (2) Healthy Families America focuses on prevention through facilitating nurturing relationships and connection to services (Kathleen Strader, Healthy Families America); and (3) Child First targets the most vulnerable young children and families, who have experienced high levels of trauma and adversity, through a team approach providing comprehensive care coordination and mental health intervention for both parent and child (Darcy Lowell, Child First).