Framework for Maternal and

Child Health Nursing Care

What is the 4 Phases of Health Care?
Health Promotion
• To educate the clients to be aware
of good health through teaching and
role modeling

Health Maintenance
• Intervening to maintain health when
risk of illness is present

MDG Millennium Develop Goal

MSG Millennium Sustainable Goal
Health Restoration
• Promptly diagnosing and treating
illness using intervention that will
return client to wellness most rapidly

Health Rehabilitation
• Preventing further complications
from an illness; bringing an ill client
back to an optimal state of wellness
• or helping a client to accept
inevitable death.
 The Leading Causes Of Infant Mortality
In The Phils. (Remains unchanged)

Measuring Maternal and Child Health

Birth Rate
• Is the total number of live births per
1,00 of a population in a year
Fertility Rate
• Reflects what proportion of women
who could have babies are having
them.
Fetal Death Rate
• Defined as the death in utero of a
child (fetus) weighing 500g or more,
roughly the weight of a fetus of 20
weeks or more pregnancy.
Neonatal Death Rate
• Death within the 28 days of life.