Maternal and Child Health Services: Challenges and Aims

Family planning and maternal and child health services.

Considerable effort has been made in the area of family planning in the State of Punjab. Family planning personnel has been recruited and trained at the State Family Planning Training and Research Center in Kharar; supplies of Nirodh, IUDs, oral contraceptives, and hospital equipment along with transportation facilities have been made available; and there has been some building construction....

Progress made in maternal and child health, but challenges remain.

[Improving the quality of maternal and child health services].

Johnson & Johnson Indonesia, PT (J&J) and the Indonesian Midwives Association (Ikatan Bidan Indonesia or IBI) have partnered since 2006 to improve the quality of services provided by privatesector midwives in Indonesia through the Bidan Delima (BD) program. IBI is a nationwide association of midwives that includes both government and privatesector midwives. The BD program is designed to standar...

Parental expectations of maternal and child health services.

This article reports on survey research (N = 1,418) aimed at examining whether parental expectations of maternal and child health (MCH) services are influenced by group characteristics (e.g., socioeconomic status [SES], ethnicity, at risk of poverty) and/or individual parenting context variables (e.g., received social support) in a context where these services are available to all. The findings...

Grand Challenges: Integrating Maternal Mental Health into Maternal and Child Health Programmes

1 University of Liverpool, Institute of Psychology, Health & Society, Child Mental Health Unit, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Mulberry House, Eaton Road, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2 Social and Behavioral Interventions Programme, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Mental Health Progra...