Child Health and Community Health Centers in the Americas

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 718-719
Author(s):  
M. S. Elbualy

Those of us interested in the health (health in its widest sense) of the masses, especially those masses which are underprivileged, are delighted with the appearance of more and more articles in medical journals related to this subject. However, it pains me to see the Committee on International Child Health1 propose and recommend more studies in order to delineate the most effective elements of community comprehensive child care. It seems we keep doing studies and then either never apply what was found or recommend further study of the study.

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-720
Author(s):  
E. H. Christopherson ◽  
Alfred Yankauer

For the Committee, and its subcommittee most closely involved, Dr. Christopherson and Dr. Yankauer replied to this letter as follows: At one stage in the development of the Committee's Statement on Child Health and Community Health Centers in the Americas, it included almost all the points which Dr. Elbualy has raised in his letter. These were eventually reduced to a few words in the eighth and ninth paragraphs of the published statement which refer to the "overwhelming social, economic, and cultural inequities and inadequacies" which lead to high mortality among the children of the poor.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Nopita Cahyaningrum ◽  
Farid Agushybana ◽  
Atik Mawarni

Regional Health Information System (RHIS) is an integrated Health Information System which effectively functions as data communication in a region. This system has been used since 2012. However, it has not shown best performance. Puskesmas (Community Health Centers) send their regular reports in the form of soft copy or hard copy. However, DKK has not verified the reports on the maternal child health regularly. Moreover, they retype the report to be sent to the Ministry of Health. It results in possibility of errors in its accuracy and validity. Thus, it requires further evaluation to improve the implementation of RHIS especially in recording and reporting maternal child health to the Ministry of Health. The objective of this research is to analyze the maternal child health data recording and reporting system in RHIS Surakarta.This is a qualitative research. Data were collected by deep interview and direct observation on the implementation of the RHIS. Object of this research is the recording and reporting system of Maternal Child Health in the RHIS DKK Surakarta. The main informant is the head and the staffs of SIMKES, midwifes coordinators of SIK in 6 Community Health Centers.The results of this study propose that improvement on human resources competences should be done regularly. The data of maternal child health are taken from community health centers. That is why, there should be proper policy on the reporting the data of maternal child health. The report sent should be filed in soft copy and hard copy. Nevertheless, the available data have been processed by community health centers and are accessible for public needs.This study proposes that the recording and reporting system of maternal child health data should be developed by improving the competences of human resources, decreeing operational policy, and providing standard operating procedure.


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