Sentences with phrase «improving maternal child»

Her commitment to improve maternal child health practices and birth care and options for all women in all settings stems from a deep belief that how babies enter the world is important to all of us now and to our the future generations.

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We will provide education and products to improve maternal nutrition in child - bearing years and pre-natal periods.

So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.

Melinda Gates, a passionate advocate for improved maternal and infant care worldwide, puts it this way: «To help women and children fulfill their potential, we need to make sure they can receive the right kind of health care at every phase of their lives.

If we can provide access to contraceptives, moms can go back to work to combat extreme poverty; kids can stay in school; families can feed their children; and we can improve maternal and child mortality outcomes.

Essential Nutrition Actions: improving maternal, newborn, infant and young child health and nutrition 2013.

ICAN \'s mission is to improve maternal - child health by preventing unnecessary cesareans through education, providing support for cesarean recovery, and promoting vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).

Kate also monitored Ghana's progress on Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 — to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health.

She campaigns for health equity and works on local and national legislation to improve maternal and child health and newborn care.

Cesarean / Birth Awareness www.ican-online.net The International Cesarean Awareness Network, Inc. (ICAN) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve maternal - child health by preventing unnecessary cesareans through education, providing support for cesarean recovery, and promoting Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC).

The International Cesarean Awareness Network, Inc. (ICAN) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve maternal - child health by preventing unnecessary cesareans through education, providing support for cesarean recovery, and promoting Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC).

Maternal breastfeeding support is critical to achieve the very important targets of the UN MDGs and effectively reduce under fives deaths, infant and young child health and improve maternal sMaternal breastfeeding support is critical to achieve the very important targets of the UN MDGs and effectively reduce under fives deaths, infant and young child health and improve maternal smaternal survival.

8 A national Healthy People 2020 objective to improve maternal and child health is to increase the number of employers with worksite lactation support programs.9 By being Mother - Friendly, businesses not only improve employee health, they also nurture the community that supplies their future employees and managers.

Overall, the intervention improved both breastfeeding and child cognitive ability, irrespective of maternal education level, by favourably shifting the entire distribution of exclusive and prolonged breastfeeding and of cognitive ability.

More importantly, the breastfeeding promotion intervention improved both breastfeeding and child cognitive ability, irrespective of maternal education, by favourably shifting the entire distribution of exclusive and prolonged breastfeeding and of cognitive ability.

Home visiting focuses on fostering healthy child development by improving parenting and maternal functioning.

For example, it is unclear whether children do better because of improved caregiving, increased maternal personal resources, improved family functioning, expanded economic resources, or all of the above.

With a target of halving maternal and newborn deaths in facilities in 5 years, national governments from 9 first wave countries and partners are joining forces to establish a Network to improve the quality of care provided to mothers, newborns and children.

Ideally, an intersectoral team — including, for example, programme managers and staff responsible for nutrition and maternal and child health, academics, and national and international nongovernmental organizations — will use the tool as a basis for strengthening national policies and programmes that contribute to improved infant and young child 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 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health to cut preventable maternal and newborn illness and deaths, and to improve every mother's experience maternal and newborn illness and deaths, and to improve every mother's experience of care.

In an effort to improve maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) outcomes and advance HBS activities worldwide, we are happy to share key MNCH resources and information developed by our partners and other global health organizations.

To improve maternal, infant and young child nutrition WHO's Member States have endorsed global targets for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition and are committed to monitoring progress.

With regard to the impact of home visiting programs on maternal depression, evidence from recent studies suggests that some components help to improve child's health and development and mothers» sensitivity to child cues.

Ensuring that actions to improve infant feeding are included in all of these relevant policy areas, including obesity, diabetes and cancer reduction, emotional attachment and subsequent school readiness, improved maternal and child mental health and environmental sustainability

Depressed mothers are often overwhelmed in the parenting role, have difficulty reading infant cues, struggle to meet the social and emotional needs of their children, and are less tolerant of child misbehaviour.7 Offspring of depressed mothers, particularly if they are exposed to depression in the first year of life, are more likely to be poorly attached to their caregivers, experience emotional and behavioural dysregulation, have difficulty with attention and memory, and are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders throughout childhood.8 Home visiting focuses on fostering healthy child development by improving parenting and maternal functioning.

In response to this situation, 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 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health to cut preventable maternal and newborn illness and deaths, and to improve every mother's experience maternal and newborn illness and deaths, and to improve every mother's experience of care.

Summary: This study, published in Maternal and Child Nutrition in August 2010, examined the impact of culturally appropriate feeding messages on improving...

Maternal education acts as a protective buffer to improve resilient parenting for younger children (aged 3 - 5) while maternal health is protective for 5 yeMaternal education acts as a protective buffer to improve resilient parenting for younger children (aged 3 - 5) while maternal health is protective for 5 yematernal health is protective for 5 year olds.

But research has shown significant positive outcomes for vulnerable families enrolled in home visiting, including improved maternal, newborn, and infant health, better educational attainment for moms, improved school readiness, and reduced child abuse.

Yet health and nutrition programs sometimes overlook the maternal dietary practices and behaviors that are critical to improving nutrition and shaping a child's future during the first 1,000 days.

As IYCN completes five years of project implementation, our team members from five countries will share challenges, experiences, and future directions for reaching caregivers and communities to change behaviors and improve maternal and child nutrition.

Additional potential benefits are increased patient satisfaction, improved maternal / child well - being and reduced incidence of adverse outcomes including cesarean sections.

The program supports applied research relating to maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting services to advance knowledge about the implementation and effectiveness of home visiting programs, which aim to improve life outcomes among mothers, infants, and young children.

Improving maternal mental health after a child's diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder: results from a randomized clinical trial.

To improve exclusive breastfeeding, health care staff working in maternal and child health units, should consider integrating fathers with services delivered to mothers and children.

Thus, it is not surprising that breastfeeding has been consistently associated with improved central nervous system development, as indicated by improved visual acuity in relationship to formula - fed infants.4 Second, both biological properties and differences in maternal - infant interactions during the feeding process can lead to improved motor and intellectual development outcomes.5, 6 Third, breastfeeding appears to be protective against the onset of childhood obesity, 7 a condition that has enormous psychosocial consequences for children.

Cash transfer programs, for instance, are an important means of improving economic security and access to maternal and child health care for pregnant women and new mothers, particularly for women living in poverty.

Through research, training, and technical assistance, she helps communities improve their policies on maternal and child health, healthy retail environments, and just food systems.

One of the barriers to improving maternal and child nutrition is the lack of consistent, evidence - based dietary guidelines targeted specifically at pregnant and lactating women, infants, and young children.

Improving maternal and child nutrition requires multiple strategies, with interventions aimed at various critical points during the life cycle.

«But if we really want to improve maternal and child health in this country, let's also focus on things that can really do that in the long term — like subsidized day care, better maternity - leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that pay a living wage, for example.»

The Sixty - fifth World Health Assembly (WHA 65) indicated that global efforts to improve nutrition should focus on six global nutrition targets to be achieved by 2025 and endorsed a Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition (CIP) through Resolution WHA65.6.

Earlier this year, on January 26th, 2010, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Stephen Harper, announced his intention to make maternal and child health a development priority for the upcoming G8 Summit, saying that «Canada will champion a major initiative to improve the health of women and children in the world's poorest regions.»

Others were to reduce child mortality, to improve maternal health, to combat HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases, to ensure environmental sustainability, and to develop a global partnership for development.

Speaking at the certificate presentation ceremony of the TBAs held at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa Secretariat, Governor Ambode said that one of the cardinal points of his administration was to make traditional birth attendants a relevant factor in child care delivery, hence the urgent need to improve the skill of the traditional health attendants to reduce maternal mortality.

We also introduced the NHIS and free maternal care as a means to improve the health of our women and children.

Speaking at an advocacy dialogue with traditional leaders in the region for the elimination of harmful social and cultural practices, Ms Amidu said research showed that quality education, improved sanitation, nutrition, maternal and child health, and access to water supply also recorded low rates.

Getso said that over the last two years, the state government had renovated more than 300 primary and secondary health care facilities in Kano, with a view to improving access and quality of healthcare services towards reducing maternal and child mortalities.

Topics include the rights of persons with disabilities; the rights and responsibilities of drug users and ethical considerations for dignified addiction treatment; improving maternal and child health through advancements in women's rights; the effects of violence; access to affordable and appropriate health care and treatment; health disparities between different population groups; health during war and conflict; the health of internally displaced persons and refugees; and recognition of social and structural forces that impact the health of individuals and groups.

She then won a Catholic Relief Services International Development Fellowship in Rwanda, where she worked on a project proposal for 7 months to improve maternal and child health.