Name :AAMINA SULEIMAN SALah

Department of health
FACULTY OF nutrition
Course :food analysis
Date:1/4/20223
Lecturer:abdalla bashiir
 Group one names:
Ahmed maxamed
• Sundus ali
• Fdumo maxamed
• Asmaa abdalla Mohamed
• Asma Mahdi
• Aamina Mohamed muumin
• Aasia Mohamed askar
• Bushro abdirisaq
 Maternal child health care(MCH) /family
planning
Definition: is the health service provided to
mothers (women in their child bearing age)
and children. the target for MCH are all
women in their reproductive age groups
 Component of maternal child
health care(MCH)
• Maternal health
• Child health
• Family planing
• School health
• Handicapped children
• Care of children in special setting such as day
care
 Important of maternal child
health care(MCH)
 Promoting health along the whole continuum
of pregnancy,
 Childbirth and postnatal care is also crucial.
this includes good nutrition, detecting and
preventing diseases, ensuring access to sexual
and reproductive health and supporting
women.
 Different of maternal health
Maternal health is the health of women during
pregnancy, child birth and the postpartum
period and maternal health care services are
Antenatal care (ANC),delivery care, and
postnatal care(PNC) services.
 Definition of ANC
.Antenatal care(ANC) is care provided by skilled health care
professionals to women throughout their pregnancy.

Types of antenatal care includes.

Antenatal clinic care
Midwifery care
Shared antenatal care.
Midwifery group practice (caseload midwifery)
Team midwifery care
Private care
 Approaches of ANC
 To screen,
 Diagnose and manage or
 Control the risk factors that might adversely
affect the pregnant woman and/or the
pregnancy out come.
 ELEMENT OF ANTENATAL CARE
• PROMOTION OF HEALTH
• WELLBEING VIA EDUCATION
• SUPPORT FOR NUTRITION
• CESATION OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE
• UPTAKE OF FAMILY PLANING
• RECOGNITION OF danger sign and birth
preparedness
 Importance of antenatal care
• Through antenatal care, pregnant women can
also access micronutrient supplementation,
• Treatment for hypertension
• To prevent eclampsia,
• As well as immunization against tetanus.
Antenatal care can also provide HIV testing and
medication to prevent mother-to child
transmission of HIV
 Definition of postnatal care
• Is the begins immediately after the birth of the
baby and extends up to six weeks (42days) after
birth.
• THE OBJECTIVES OF POSTNATAL CARE
• The major purposes of postpartum and
postnatal care are to maintain and promote the
health of the woman and her baby and to foster
an environment that offers help.
 Importance 0f postnatal care
• Promoting a healthy life style with good
nutrition ,detecting and preventing
disease ,supporting women and ensuring
access to sexual reproductive healthy.
• Prioritizing your own health in addition to
your newborns.
• It ensures that you are recovering properly
from labor and delivery.
 Aims of postnatal care
• Support the mother for an easy transition
• For early diagnosis and treatment of any
complication
• For nutrioanal guidance
• Guidance on breast feeding
• Guide on contraception and family planning
 The essential components of PNC
• Screening
• Management of pre- eclampsia,
• Maternal anemia and
• Mental health are recommended universally
• Promotion of and support of exclusive breast
feeding and
• Uptake of a modern contraceptive method are
also considered essential components of PNC
 Objectives of postnatal care
• To promote breast feeding
• To prevent complications
• To prevent infection and identify any health
• To educate mother and family on various
aspects 0f mother and child care
 Define TBA
• Traditional birth attendant (TBA) ,also known
as traditional midwife, community midwife or
lay midwife, is pregnancy and childbirth care
provider.
• TBA is the most often used interchangeably
with tbd.
 Family planning
• Family planning involves planning the number
frequency and timing of pregnancy.
• Is program to regulate the number and
spacing of children in family through the
practice.
 Advantage of family planning
• Reducing pregnancy-related risk
• Reducing teenage pregnancies.
• Health babies
• Population pressures
• Family planning (literally) contraception
 Uses of family planing
• Family planing allows people to attain their
desired number of children ,if any, and to
determine the spacing of their pregnancies.
• It is achieved through use of contraceptive
method and treatment of infertility.
 Disadvantage 0f family planning
• Depression
• Nausea
• Change in appetite
• Head ache
• Hair loss
• Irregular bleeding
 Child health care
• Child health care refer to care of children from
conception to birth till the age of five
• Objective
• To monitor growth and development
• Increasing health level of children
• Nutritious diet to children
• To educate the mother and family member
• Decreasing child death and infant mortality rate .
 Services of care of the child
• Immunization
• Personal hygiene
• Growth and development
• Breast feeding
• Detection of health problem &treatment