scholarly journals An Overview of Key Indicators of HMIS: Experiences with Haryana

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Tarun Bala
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Health ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Child Survival ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
And Child Health

<div><p><em>Reducing maternal and child mortality is the most important goal of the National Rural Health Mission. Indian government has worked towards its commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.  Huge investments are being made by Government of India to achieve these goals. A well framed roadmap is being developed for accelerating child survival and improving maternal health and 16 indicators is selected for this purpose. The improvement in these indicators shows the way towards the achievement of MDGs.  India has made considerable progress over the last few years since NRHM in the area of maternal and child health, which was further accelerated after introduction of RMNCHA+ () strategy which appropriately directs the states to focus their efforts on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged sections of the society in the country. Main focus is healthy mothers and child. It also emphasizes on the need to reinforce efforts in those poor performing districts that have already been identified as the high focus districts. ‘Continuum care’ is required to have equal focus on various life stages.  Improvement in these indicators provide an understanding the importance of ‘continuum of care’ to ensure equal focus on various life stages. Some low performing districts had shown an improvement over period of time in its RMNCHA+ indicators.</em></p></div>

scholarly journals Optimizing the world's nursing and midwifery roles to meet the Millennium Development Goals for maternal and child health more effectively

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 2699-2702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Noyes ◽  
Benedicte Carlsen ◽  
Jackie Chandler ◽  
Christopher J. Colvin ◽  
Claire Glenton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Child Health

scholarly journals Recent Trends in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health in Brazil: Progress Toward Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5

2010 ◽  
Vol 100 (10) ◽  
pp. 1877-1889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando C. Barros ◽  
Alicia Matijasevich ◽  
Jennifer Harris Requejo ◽  
Elsa Giugliani ◽  
Ana Goretti Maranhão ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Newborn And Child Health ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
And Child Health

scholarly journals Improving Maternal and Child Health in Bangladesh: The Integration of Midwives in Conjunction With the United Nations Millenium Development Goals Initiative

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Casto
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Cost Effective Method ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Child Health

As the United Nations Millennium Development Goals initiative comes to a close, it is important to examine what has been effective in combating disparities in developing nations. In this paper I explore the impact midwives have on improving maternal and child health in Bangladesh by focusing on how the United Nations Millennium Development Goals initiative has helped to change societal views on women and birth as midwives become more integrated into improving maternal and child health. It is a quantitative and qualitative approach analyzing the statistics of implementing midwives as these impact cost-effectiveness and change in mortality rates in addition to social changes that have occurred in the culture towards maternal and child health. The paper further analyzes programs implemented by countries such as India and Sri Lanka comparatively. Data have been collected from published United Nations and governmental reports, media, and research articles. The paper concludes that the implementation of midwives has provided a cost-effective method of reducing maternal and child health in Bangladesh, and will be increasingly efficient as governmental programs continue to improve various aspects and laws of the country. It is important to analyze what is working in order to further improve maternal and child health on both a regional and global level. The use of midwives can provide a fundamental framework in communities that can aid in reducing health disparities as well as all improve all facets of reproductive wellness, providing the support needed at all stages to improve maternal and child health.

scholarly journals Maternal and child health in Bangladesh: a critical look at the policy and the sustainable development goals

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Newaz Khan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Maternal Health ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Expected Improvement ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Child Health

Based on secondary analysis, this paper places a critical discussion looking back in history of maternal health achievements by Bangladesh, future adaptability and potentials forwarding to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) set by United Nations. Since the transition from MDGs to SDGs, Bangladesh achieved a many progress in maternal health development but still grappling with many structural and cultural barriers. Implementation of policy documents in community level, lack of better infrastructure, health bureaucracy induced delays, culture of absenteeism among practitioners and lack good health governance are some major challenges still hindering a fostered progress in achieving the expected improvement in maternal and child health condition in community and broader level. Evidences discussed in this paper suggests that, the clauses related to implementation and maintenance need to be stronger in the maternal health policy for future direction and sustainable progress in maternal health. The policy should act in practice, not as a document, to improve maternal health and reducing mortality that would finally speed up the progress in achieving SDGs target in more pragmatic sense.Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. September 2017, 3(3): 298-304

Maternal Health and the Sustainable Development Goals – A new focus for the world and for our region

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Caroline Homer
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Health ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Island Region ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Mdg 4 ◽  
And Child Health

By the year 2015, we had all become very familiar with the Millennium Development Goals and many countries were used to reporting their health indicators using MDGs. For those of us working in maternal and child health, in many ways, there was a simple direction to our reporting – we predominately focussed on MDG 4 (child health), MDG 5 (maternal health) and MDG 6 (HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases including tuberculosis). Across the Pacific Island region, there was reported to be good progress from 1990 to 2015 in reducing maternal mortality, with only fair progress in reducing child mortality, ensuring access to reproductive health and poor progress in the halt and reversal of the spread of TB. Clearly, we all still have work to do in our region especially to improve maternal health.

scholarly journals Maternal and Child Health Situation in South East Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tulsi Ram Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Child Health ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Maternal Child Health ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Child Health

Attaining maternal and child health goals remains a challenge to the world. There is need to collect and manage reliable information on maternal and child health for resource generation and proper allocation. This is useful for assessing progress towards the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. This paper aims to assess the maternal and child health status in South East Asia Region.Literature search from PubMed, Medline, Lancet, WHO and Google web pages published from 2000 to 2012 was the method adopted for review. All the related references were cited and organized by using referencing software Endnote.Out of the South East Asian countries Thailand, South Korea, Sri-Lanka and Maldives have better maternal child health indicators. South Korea, Sri-Lanka and Maldives follow Thailand in almost indicators. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, and East Timor have poor indicators and are at the bottom of the group.In the South East Asia, there is wide divergence in socio-economic and health status among the countries. More than one-third of maternal and child deaths of global mortality occurs in this region. Many countries in this region are unlikely to achieve the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 even if maternal child health is made the priority agenda of all the countries. Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology / Vol 7 / No. 1 / Issue 13 / Jan- June, 2012 / 5-10 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njog.v7i1.8825

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