Sentences with phrase «included maternal and child health»

Her research topics have included maternal and child health, childhood obesity prevention, health equity, partnership capacity, and health literacy.

The domains include maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, child maltreatment, family economic self - sufficiency, crime or domestic violence, and increases in coordination of resources and referrals.

Additional services include maternal and child health care, parent training, vocational and educational training, and children's mental health and early education services.

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And former White House Faith - Based Office staffer Michael Wear suggested that the Obama administration helped by signing the Adoption Tax Credit in 2013, including maternal health supports in the Affordable Care Act, and expanding the child tax credAnd former White House Faith - Based Office staffer Michael Wear suggested that the Obama administration helped by signing the Adoption Tax Credit in 2013, including maternal health supports in the Affordable Care Act, and expanding the child tax credand expanding the child tax credit.

My friend, pediatric physical therapist Wendi McKenna, has put together an online summit of 20 child development, maternal, and family health experts — including me — to -LSB-...]

Helping adolescent males to delay fatherhood may also be important from a child health perspective: research that controlled for maternal age and other key factors found teenage fatherhood associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal death (Chen et al, 2007).

She is the recipient of many awards and honors for her work in maternal and child health, including the American Medical Association's 2002 Dr. Nathan Davis Award and the 2003 Heroes in Health Care Lifetime Achievement Award through the Washington Health Foundhealth, including the American Medical Association's 2002 Dr. Nathan Davis Award and the 2003 Heroes in Health Care Lifetime Achievement Award through the Washington Health FoundHealth Care Lifetime Achievement Award through the Washington Health FoundHealth Foundation.

Breastfeeding is now included in the National Performance Measures of Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant partly because of the Roundtable's work.My «business» for the past 16 years has been to build the very foundation of «breastfeeding - related businesses:» starting the LC profession; establishing the credential; forming the professional association; and creating / changing health pHealth Block Grant partly because of the Roundtable's work.My «business» for the past 16 years has been to build the very foundation of «breastfeeding - related businesses:» starting the LC profession; establishing the credential; forming the professional association; and creating / changing health phealth policy.

Kathleen's heart has always been in service to children and families, beginning her career in a hospital setting where most of her time was spent in maternal child health and pediatrics, including work as the coordinator of the hospital's child protection team.

Let Canada's politicians know that the protection, promotion and support for breastfeeding and maternal supports for Safe Motherhood are critical measures to be included on the G - 8 Maternal Newborn Child Health Initiativematernal supports for Safe Motherhood are critical measures to be included on the G - 8 Maternal Newborn Child Health InitiativeMaternal Newborn Child Health Initiative agenda.

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.

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

In May 2012, WHO and partners - The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, Save the Children, and the March of Dimes - published a report Born Too Soon: The global action report on preterm birth that included the first ever estimates of preterm birth by country.

These topics include: maternal health, prenatal and infant / child oral health, newborn screening, infant mortality, home visiting, pediatric emergency care, child safety, school - based health, children's healthy weight, adolescent and young adult health, and environmental health.

The study includes: an analysis of the state needs assessments that were provided in the state MIECHV applications and an effectiveness study that includes an impact analysis to measure what difference home visiting programs make for the at - risk families they serve in areas such as prenatal, maternal, and newborn health; child development; parenting; domestic violence; and referrals and service coordination.

Since 1985, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) has supported nongovernmental organizations» (NGO) efforts to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality through interventions designed to address health issues, includingChild Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) has supported nongovernmental organizations» (NGO) efforts to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality through interventions designed to address health issues, includinHealth Grants Program (CSHGP) has supported nongovernmental organizations» (NGO) efforts to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality through interventions designed to address health issues, includingchild morbidity and mortality through interventions designed to address health issues, includinhealth issues, including EBF.

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.

Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child, including higher maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks of infectious disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).

The ILO also said that an effective maternity leave «contributes to the health and well - being of mothers and their babies and thus to the achievement of major development goals, including the reduction of child and maternal mortality and improvement of their health» (United Nations, 2009).

We also sponsor networking and training opportunities for maternity care professionals, including our annual Mother - Friendly Childbirth Symposium, The Birthing Justice Forum, Annual Maternal - Child Health Advocate Awards Recognition, and seminars to support perinatal professional collaboration and continuing education.

Designed to bridge professional conferences for clinicians, health care providers, academics, and researchers, with consumer conferences for parents, Milk aims to educate, inspire, and support parents in feeding their children, as well as the people that support them including nutrition, lactation, maternal, and pediatric health care providers.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that the major reasons why mothers stop breastfeeding before they desire include concerns about maternal or child health (infant nutrition, maternal illness or the need for medicine, and infant illness) and processes associated with breastfeeding (lactation and milk - pumping problems).

These include teenage motherhood, maternal educational under - achievement, poverty, parental antisocial behaviour and other mental - health problems, prenatal stress and maternal health, family violence, child abuse and parenting difficulties.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

Therefore, the target audience includes national and local public health policy - makers, implementers and managers of maternal and child health programmes, health care facility managers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), professional societies involved in the planning and management of maternal and child health services, health care professionals (including nurses, midwives, general medical practitioners and obstetricians) and academic staff involved in training health care professionals.

Kathy Spring, BSN, RNC has 37 years of experience in Maternal Child Health, including many years in level 2 and 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Nurseries as staff nurse, charge nurse and manager.

Research interests of the more than 200 doctoral - level faculty include AIDS, GIS, maternal and child health, hospital epidemiology, infectious diseases, environmental and occupational health, eldercare, minority health and health disparities.

He outlined his vision for the University, which includes facilitating a vibrant intellectual climate that stimulates innovative research and community engagement, promotion of multidisciplinary research in infectious diseases, chronic diseases, maternal and child health policy, among others.

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.

The issues addressed in this program include prevention and treatment of leading causes of maternal, neonatal and pediatric morbidity and mortality, maternal and child nutrition and the role of micronutrients in healthy child bearing, and reproductive health including socio - behavioral aspects, birth practices, and development and evaluation of newer contraceptives.

Lopez and Murray included mental illnesses in their analysis because they are key to public health, along with infections, noncommunicable diseases and maternal and child health.

Given the trend toward women having children later in life, health officials should emphasize improvements in prenatal care, including family planning education and increased training of birth attendants to manage and encourage deliveries for women of advanced maternal age at health - care facilities.

These include a new «at - risk» code in Oregon that allows young children to receive Medicaid - covered mental health services before they have a full - blown mental health disorder; Medicaid coverage in Oregon and Michigan for evidence - based parenting programs that can help parents learn parenting practices that promote a positive parent - child relationship and address challenging child behavior; and extensive training and support for pediatricians in Minnesota who want to conduct maternal depression screening during well - child visits and respond appropriately when the screen indicates that the mother needs further evaluation and support.

Projects include: violence prevention, maternal and child health, mental health, food and nutrition, road traffic safety, chronic disease treatment and prevention, raising funds and medical supplies for local hospitals, and trauma treatment.

The researchers found that four million lives could be saved every year by reaching 90 percent of the target populations with services included in the maternal and newborn health and child health packages.

The partner organizations in ASADI include John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Save the Children, and UNICEF.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

Most of her clinical career included maternal - child health and hospice as well as community nursing as...

«Wrapping services including early childhood education, maternal and child health, and family services helps families now and will help generations to come,» Mr Fawcett said.

The minimum elements a Primary Health Care programme should contain, according to Alma Ata, are: «Education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them; promotion of food supply and proper nutrition; an adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation; maternal and child health care, including family planning; immunization against the major infectious diseases; prevention and control of locally endemic diseases; appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries; and provision of essential drugs&rHealth Care programme should contain, according to Alma Ata, are: «Education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them; promotion of food supply and proper nutrition; an adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation; maternal and child health care, including family planning; immunization against the major infectious diseases; prevention and control of locally endemic diseases; appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries; and provision of essential drugs&rhealth problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them; promotion of food supply and proper nutrition; an adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation; maternal and child health care, including family planning; immunization against the major infectious diseases; prevention and control of locally endemic diseases; appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries; and provision of essential drugs&rhealth care, including family planning; immunization against the major infectious diseases; prevention and control of locally endemic diseases; appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries; and provision of essential drugs».

Currently, school - based clinics solicit funds from a variety of federal sources, including Medicaid, maternal - and child - health block grants, the drug - free - schools program, and Title X of the Public Health Service Act, although none of these programs is specifically designed to fundhealth block grants, the drug - free - schools program, and Title X of the Public Health Service Act, although none of these programs is specifically designed to fundHealth Service Act, although none of these programs is specifically designed to fund them.

Serve as a resource and role model for other maternal / child nurses and health care providers, including experienced and fully trained registered nurses and...

Responsible for development of competencies and evaluation of 80 staff members inclusive of professional and ancillary staff on the maternal child health units including labor and delivery, mother - baby, and NICU.

On the first home visits, NFN nurses conduct mother and child health and developmental assessments and screen for co-occurring risk factors including maternal depression, everyday stress and domestic violence.

Within the maternal domain, dominant themes included 1) emotional health: all respondents indicated that a mother's emotional health greatly affects her child's well being; 2) self - efficacy: mothers believed in the importance of accepting responsibility for monitoring their own well being and that of their child; and 3) support systems: all mothers expressed the need to share parenting experiences, stressors, and depressive symptoms with someone (most preferred to speak with family or friends rather than with their child's pediatrician).

Demographic information included in this analysis was predominately from the time of the child's birth, and included socioeconomic status, maternal age at child's birth, parity, Indigenous status, health service region (rural or metropolitan) and maternal marital status.

aModel includes controls for maternal race / ethnicity, child age, child gender, family structure, number of children in the household, child health status, and health insurance status in the past year.

The Bureau of Maternal and Child Health has identified 19 programs, including but not limited to Nurse - Family Partnership, Early Head Start, Healthy Families America, and Parents as Teachers, that target families with pregnant women or children younger than 5 years.