Sentences with phrase «maternal health and family»

Parentivity is funded through Iowa's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting grant to extend and expand the reach of IDH's maternal health and family home visiting services.

This is why continued EU support for maternal health and family planning is essential.

The European Commission currently spends an estimated 121.5 million euros per year on maternal health and family planning — equivalent to approximately 1.3 % of the funding gap to meet the unmet need for maternal health and family planning.

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The United Nations Population Fund or UNFPA is the U.N.'s lead agency on family planning and maternal health.

Paternal postpartum depression, its relationship to maternal postpartum depression, and implications for family health.

Engage fathers in existing family support, child development and maternal / child health programmes.

Dr. Kendall - Tackett is widely published in the fields of family violence, maternal depression, perinatal health, and disability.

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-...]

By promoting health equity, which will aid in the reduction of barriers and inequality in maternal and child health for women of color in the D.C. Metro Area, we aim to foster healthy individuals, healthy families and healthy communities.

The legislature finds that breast - feeding a baby is an important and basic act of nurture that must be encouraged in the interests of maternal and child health and family values.

The Action Kit Includes, Graphics - 11 x 17 posters - 8.5 x 11 posters - stickers Fact Sheets - investment in infant / maternal health - investment in the family - investment in the health care system - short and long term benefits - investment in society Tools - sample news release - proclamation request letters Activities - pricing exercise - colouring contest - savings wheel - formula to calculate what your local hospital could save through increased breastfeeding rates.

Since May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month, it's my hope to raise awareness about these issues and to let moms and their families know that they're not alone, and I know you work with a lot of moms here in Sacramento and the surrounding areas.

Sometimes progress in raising the degree of maternal and child health means moving backwards, to the participation of a whole village in raising a child, rather than forward to the increasingly socially isolated nuclear family.

Dottie has spent her entire career working in maternal child health and has long been an advocate for children and their families.

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.

Her interest and love for supporting nursing mothers and their families to meet their own breastfeeding goals started while she was a Maternal Child Health Nurse with the Visiting Nurse Association of of Boston in 2000.

Optimal breastfeeding for the first 2 years of life is the single most effective intervention to prevent child deaths worldwide.1 Breastfeeding saves children's lives, supports their growth and development, preventsmalnutrition, ensures food security for infants, protects maternal and child health, reduces financial pressure on families, supports loving relationships and increases educational attainment.

Most people who are unfamiliar with maternal mental health will only give a mother so long before their patience begins to wear thin on a mother expressing difficulties connecting and caring for her family.

She is committed to supporting families, and training maternal child health professionals on culturally appropriate breastfeeding support.

Lactation consultants around the world are transforming world health by helping families build a solid foundation for maternal and child health, gender equality and sustainable health care.

Simkin Center strives to provide a learning environment free from institutionalized racism and oppression, and is dedicated to health and race equity and cultural awareness in supporting maternal, infant and family health.

Evidence - Based Model Crosswalk to Benchmarks: Model Alignment With Benchmark (PDF - 641 KB) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services & Health Resources and Services Administration (2011) Describes the Affordable Care Act Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), and how the act responds, through evidence - based home visiting programs, to diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities through collaboration at the Federal, State, and community levels.

She is also co-director of the Center for Latina Maternal and Family Health Research at the University of Houston.

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

In many European countries, home visiting is a routine part of maternal and child health care, although the practice is less established in Canada and the United States.7 Over the past 30 years, one of the most promising prevention strategies targeted at decreasing rates of child maltreatment has been to provide health services, parenting education, and social support to pregnant women and families with young children in their own homes.

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.

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.

Very active in her community, serving in a variety of positions that promote maternal - infant health, Sharon enjoys active online engagement and facilitating discussion around best practice, current research and its practical application to community standards and actions by health care providers, and how that affects families in the childbearing year.

What Sharon loves to do most is design and implement engaging and interactive curriculum for families and professionals on topics of maternal - infant health.

This free membership is being offered to students of diversity and to those students who are pursuing certificates, certifications, and degrees in the fields related to maternal / child and family studies: doulas, childbirth educators, somatic healing, midwifery, nursing, child development, medicine, pediatrics, sociology, mental health, psychology, public health and related fields.

Breastfeeding is critical for infant and maternal health, and is proven to reduce healthcare spending for families and taxpayers.

Significant factors like: maternal morbidity, family history, prior birth trauma, socio - economic status, mental health history, expectations of childbirth, adjustment to the role of parent, and many more aspects can influence the way in which a woman and her family integrate and heal from a traumatic birth.

They took into consideration several other factors such family income and maternal health and concluded that apart from offering this benefits, breastfeeding also offered other benefits including protection from infections and reducing childhood mortality.

Risk assessment is an important part of every midwife's practice, just like a family practice doc who does OB is always assessing if someone needs to go to OB or maternal - fetal medicine, every health provider continually assesses and refers their patients to the appropriate level of care.

Our board and advisory committee, volunteers and consultants are maternal - child health experts with training and experience in family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, maternal mental health, perinatal psychology, maternity and newborn nursing, midwifery, lactation support, public health, health promotion, doula support and childbirth education.

Obstacles to initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include insufficient prenatal education about breastfeeding132, 133; disruptive hospital policies and practices134; inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding135; early hospital discharge in some populations136; lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits137; maternal employment138, 139 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding) 140; lack of family and broad societal support141; media portrayal of bottle feeding as normative142; commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and some television and general magazine advertising143, 144; misinformation; and lack of guidance and encouragement from health care professionals.135, 145,146

To improve the quality of maternity care, the WHO affirms that a positive experience of childbirth is just as important for optimal maternal, newborn, and family health and well - being as evidence - based, clinical care.

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.

This is consistent with other studies demonstrating a link between breastfeeding and maternal sensitivity.25, 26,27 For example, in a longitudinal study of more than 1300 families in the USA, mothers who breast fed were observed to be more sensitive to their babies at 6, 15, 24 and 36 months.27 Importantly, this difference persisted after statistical control for the effects of maternal mental health, the quality of the home environment in terms of infant health and stimulation and socioeconomic status.

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.

They conclude that L reuteri treatment «did not reduce crying or fussing in infants with colic, nor was it effective in improving infant sleep, maternal mental health, family or infant functioning, or quality of life» and say «probiotics therefore can not be routinely recommended for all infants with colic.»

Recognizing the prevalence (1 in 7 women will suffer) and serious implications of untreated maternal mental health disorders for mothers, children, families, and society more generally, the California Legislative Women's Caucus put forth Assembly Concurrent Resolution (ACR) 148 which was passed in 2014.

A history of mental health disorder, decreased perception of maternal well - being, decreased maternal comfort regarding her infant, and decreased perception of family cohesion were also associated with possible depression at one month post discharge.»

They committed to «accelerat [ing] progress.on maternal health, including through sexual and reproductive health care and services and voluntary family planning.»

(3) A study by the United Nations (UNFPA) and Guttmacher Institute estimated that investing in both family planning and maternal and newborn health services together can achieve the same dramatic reductions in mortality for US$ 1.5 billion less than investing in maternal and newborn health services alone.

The Canadian Foreign Minister, Lawrence Cannon, has announced that its maternal and child health initiative, due to be launched at the G8 summit in June, will not address family planning «in any way shape or form» on the erroneous grounds that family planning is not needed to save lives.

The World Health Organization describes family planning as «the first step for avoiding maternal deaths» (2) while statistical analysis by the Global Health Council suggests that about 35 percent of all maternal deaths could be eliminated if all women and men had access to contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

World Population Day is observed mainly to address 5 major issues: increase the acceptance level of family planning, ensure gender equality, reduce poverty, ensure maternal health and establish human rights.

Today, it is estimated that roughly half of all women living in developing countries do not have access to adequate basic maternal health care and that 220 million have an unmet need for family planning.

The Guttmacher Institute, the UNFPA Washington office and CARE, in coordination with Representatives Lois Capps, Yvette Clarke, Joseph Crowley, Mark Kirk and Tim Ryan invite you to a briefing on the benefits of investing in family planning and maternal and newborn health.