All sessions took place at
a local maternal and child health centre and were delivered by a nurse and a co-facilitator expert in running parenting groups.
Your local maternal and child health service will be a great source of support after your baby is born...
Not exact matches
She campaigns for
health equity
and works on
local and national legislation to improve
maternal and child health and newborn care.
Collaborative Improvement
and Innovation Networks are teams of federal, state
and local leaders working together to address a range of
maternal and child health problems.
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.
Local government authorities (LGA) in Victoria, Australia - community - based
maternal and child health centres
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 paper records the considerable efforts being made in the
health sector, with national and local governments investing in targeted disease control programmes and the National Health Mission focusing on maternal and child h
health sector, with national
and local governments investing in targeted disease control programmes
and the National
Health Mission focusing on maternal and child h
Health Mission focusing on
maternal and child healthhealth.
Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter,
and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor
maternal or
child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial
and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the
local hospital for confinement:
maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional
and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental
health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood;
and history of domestic violence.
The Miller Early Childhood Sustained Home - visiting (MECSH) programme16 (figure 1) was embedded within the established
local comprehensive universal
maternal,
child and family
health services system.
This toolbox is an online resource for
Maternal and Child Health researchers, academics, practitioners, policy advocates,
and others in the field to share information, innovative strategies,
and tools to integrate the Life Course Perspective into MCH work at the
local, state,
and national levels.
Transforming Systems for Parental Depression
and Early Childhood Developmental Delays: Findings
and Lessons Learned From the Helping Families Raise Healthy
Children Initiative (PDF - 1,567 KB) Schultz, Reynolds, Sontag - Padilla, Lovejoy, Firth, & Pincus (2013) RAND Corporation Discusses the findings of an evaluation of the Helping Families Raise Healthy
Children initiative, the fourth phase of the Allegheny County
Maternal and Child Health Care Collaborative's efforts to implement changes in the local system of maternal and child heal
Maternal and Child Health Care Collaborative's efforts to implement changes in the local system of maternal and child health
Child Health Care Collaborative's efforts to implement changes in the local system of maternal and child health
Health Care Collaborative's efforts to implement changes in the
local system of
maternal and child heal
maternal and child health
child healthhealth care.
After recruitment was complete, an independent statistician randomly allocated
maternal and child health centres (
and therefore their families), stratified by
local government area, to intervention or control arms.
From each third, we selected two
local government areas to provide a broad spread of social circumstance; all
maternal and child health nurses in these six
local government areas participated.
To find your nearest
Maternal and Child Health Centre, contact your
local council or use the Victorian early childhood service
and school directory.
This boundary is often determined by the availability of other funding mechanisms, including
local and state
maternal and child health funds, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act funding,
and other early childhood programs.
Groups can be held at kindergartens,
maternal &
child health centres, schools, neighbourhood centres
and through
local councils
and community agencies.
Data for the implementation
and impact studies will be collected from a variety of sources, including interviews with parents; observations of the home environment; observed interactions of parents
and children; direct assessments of
children's development; observations of home visitors in their work with families during home visits; logs, observations,
and interviews with home visitors, supervisors,
and program administrators; program model documentation from program developers, grantees,
and local sites;
and administrative data on
child abuse,
health care use,
maternal health, birth outcomes,
and employment
and earnings.
Detailed description of the trial's methods have been previously published.11 The cluster randomised trial was conducted in six socio - economically diverse18
local government areas (LGAs) in Victoria, Australia.11 Free universal
health visits are scheduled from birth to 42 months of age,
and over 90 % of parents attend visits during the first 6 months of life.19
Maternal and child health (MCH) nurses consecutively invited mothers of 6 - to 7 - month - old infants attending across August — September in 2004 to take part in the Toddlers Without Tears trial.
Nearly all
local programs require home visitors to conduct formal screenings for
maternal mental
health (95 %)
and child developmental delay (99 %),
and many
local programs provide staff with support to work with the family when these screening indicate an issue, with support provided via written staff protocols (35 % for mental
health and 54 % for developmental delays) or supervisory consultation (53 % for mental
health and 39 % for developmental delays).
For other assistance, please contact your
local doctor / GP or
Maternal,
Child and Family
Health Nurse / Parenting Service.