Q. What is the most cost effective child health intervention available?
In lower-middle-income countries, hepatitis B, HiB, and rotavirus vaccines range between US$60 and US$350 per DALY averted and are among the most cost-effective. Rubella, pneumococcal, and polio vaccines are between US$1,000 and US$3,000 per DALY averted.
Q. What are the major challenges to infant and child health worldwide?
These include direct and indirect causes of maternal mortality, preterm birth complications, PMTCT, congenital syphilis, diarrheal diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, malaria, pneumonia, TB, nutrition, and injury and violence.
Q. What are maternal health services?
Maternal health care services include an extensive scope of health services mothers are given before pregnancy, during pregnancy, delivery and post-natal. Maternal health care services, therefore, comprise pre-natal care, childbirth and postnatal care.
Q. What is maternal and child health care services?
DEFINITION According to WHO (1976) Maternal and child health services can be defined as “promoting, preventing, therapeutic or rehabilitation facility or care for the mother and child”. Thus maternal and child health service is an important and essential service related to mother and child’s overall development.
Q. What are the three components of maternal healthcare?
Throughout safe motherhood literature, three key components of a maternal healthcare delivery system have been emphasized repeatedly as being essential to saving lives and reducing maternal mortality: skilled birth attendants (SBA), an enabling environment (EE) and a functioning referral system (RS)8-11.
Q. What is maternal rate?
The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is the ratio of the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time-period.
Q. What is maternal period?
Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period, whereas perinatal health refers to health from 22 completed weeks of gestation until 7 completed days after birth. Newborn health is the babies’ first month of life.
Q. How can we improve maternal and child health?
11 ideas to improve maternal health in areas of conflict and extreme poverty
- 1 | Empower women.
- 2 | Kit out refugee camps.
- 3| Go mobile.
- 4 | Use an integrated approach.
- 5 | Provide access to contraception and safe abortions.
- 6 | Make responses context-specific.
- 7 | Get men involved.
- 8 | Go back to basics.
Q. What are the three delays?
The “Three Delays” model proposes that pregnancy-related mortality is overwhelmingly due to delays in: (1) deciding to seek appropriate medical help for an obstetric emergency; (2) reaching an appropriate obstetric facility; and (3) receiving adequate care when a facility is reached.
Q. What are the major causes of maternal mortality?
The five major killers are: Severe bleeding, infections, hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (eclampsia), obstructed labor and complications following unsafe abortion. Globally, about 80% of maternal deaths are due to these causes and every day, about 1000 women die due to them.
Q. Why should we improve maternal health?
Improving maternal health is key to saving the lives of more than half a million women who die as a result of complications from pregnancy and childbirth each year. FAO also promotes nutrition awareness among women and girls in rural areas and nutrition education in schools.
Q. What are the benefits of safe motherhood?
Safe motherhood decreases maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. Although, most maternal and infant deaths can be prevented through safe motherhood practices, millions of women worldwide are affected by maternal mortality and morbidity from preventable causes.
Q. How can we prevent maternal mortality?
To avoid maternal deaths, it is also vital to prevent unwanted pregnancies. All women, including adolescents, need access to contraception, safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and quality post-abortion care.
Q. What are the top 5 preventable deaths?
The estimated average number of potentially preventable deaths for the five leading causes of death in persons aged <80 years were 91,757 for diseases of the heart, 84,443 for cancer, 28,831 for chronic lower respiratory diseases, 16,973 for cerebrovascular diseases (stroke), and 36,836 for unintentional injuries ( …
Q. What can family members do to reduce child mortality rate?
Solutions that save lives, reduce child mortality
- Immediate and exclusive breastfeeding.
- Skilled attendants for antenatal, birth, and postnatal care.
- Access to nutrition and micronutrients.
- Family knowledge of danger signs in a child’s health.
- Improved access to water, sanitation, and hygiene.
- Immunizations.
Q. Where is child mortality the highest?
Sub-Saharan Africa
Q. Which country has highest child mortality rate?
Somalia
Q. What is the meaning of reduce child mortality?
A decrease in worldwide rate of mortality in children under-five by over 50 percent, reducing from 90 to 43 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1990 and 2015. Three-fold increase in the rate of reduction of under-five mortality since the early 1990s.
Q. Why is child mortality so high in Africa?
The causes of high infant mortality rate (IMR) in SSA are well known. The main causes are, in order of importance, neonatal causes (26%), child pneumonia (21%), malaria (18%), diarrhoea (16%), HIV/AIDS (6%), measles (5%) and accidents (2%).
Q. How do you calculate child mortality rate?
The indicator is calculated as equal to the number of deaths of children under five in a calendar year divided by the number of live births in the same year and multiplied by 1,000.
Q. What is under 5 mortality rate?
The under-5 mortality rate indicates the probability that a live born child will not survive to the age of 5 years. The under-5 mortality rate is the number of children who are born alive but die under the age of 5 years per 1000 liveborn infants.
Q. What does 5 mortality rate mean?
Under-five mortality rate (probability of dying by age 5 per 1000 live births) Under-five mortality rate measures child survival. It also reflects the social, economic and environmental conditions in which children (and others in society) live, including their health care.
Q. Which country has the lowest child mortality rate?
Iceland
Q. Why is US child mortality so high?
These premature births are the biggest factor in explaining the United States’ high infant mortality rate. Infertility treatments, which often lead to twins or triplets (who have poorer survival rates, perhaps primarily because they are likelier to be premature), have also been blamed for infant mortality numbers.
Q. What is the average lifespan worldwide?
72.6 years
Q. Why did so many babies die in the early 1900’s?
In 1900, pneumonia and influenza, tuberculosis, and enteritis with diarrhea were the three leading causes of death in the United States, and children under 5 accounted for 40 percent of all deaths from these infections (CDC, 1999a).
Q. How common was it to die during childbirth?
Maternal deaths and disabilities are leading contributors in women’s disease burden with an estimated 303,000 women killed each year in childbirth and pregnancy worldwide. The global rate (2017) is 211 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Forty-five percent of postpartum deaths occur within 24 hours.
Q. What is the maximum number of children in world?
69
