Interpersonal Education by Rural Yemeni Women for Promoting Child Survival and Maternal Health

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-125
Author(s):  
Syed J. Haider ◽  
Mohammad Al-Hamly ◽  
Adel Barakat ◽  
John P. Elder ◽  
Anne H. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Health ◽  
Child Survival ◽  
Oral Rehydration Therapy ◽  
Percent Correct ◽  
Oral Rehydration ◽  
Nutritional Health ◽  
Practice Questions ◽  
And Training ◽  
And Child Health ◽  
Training Effort

This study reports the results of an evaluation of an education and training effort for promoting diarrheal control, nutritional health and general maternal and child health among rural Yemeni women. Eight hundred and five volunteer women and men from twenty Yemeni villages in the governorates of Al Beida and Hajja, were trained to disseminate basic health messages to friends and neighbors in their villages. Evaluators visited four villages that had received the training and two that had not, to determine whether the dissemination had actually occurred. Mothers contacted by their recently-trained neighbors correctly responded to all knowledge and practice questions related to diarrhea control, oral rehydration therapy and breast feeding, whereas mothers in control villages averaged 60 percent correct responses. The results suggest the potential for interpersonal education for improving child survival and maternal health in Yemen.

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>

Child Survival in the Third World: A Functional Analysis of Oral Rehydration Therapy Dissemination Campaigns

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Suarez de Balcazar ◽  
Fabricio E. Balcazar
Keyword(s):  
Child Survival ◽  
Acute Diarrhoea ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Oral Rehydration Therapy ◽  
World Health ◽  
Oral Rehydration ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Third World

About 4 million children die every year as a result of dehydration caused by acute diarrhoea. Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is designed to prevent dehydration. In the past 10 years, several campaigns have been conducted throughout the world, mostly sponsored by the World Health Organization, to disseminate ORT, particularly in developing countries. This paper presents a review of 14 ORT campaigns categorising their components according to whether the researchers used antecedents, behaviours, and/or consequences. Only three campaigns manipulated all three components. Antecedent events were manipulated in all of the studies. A skills training component appears to influence the effectiveness of the campaign, since several new behaviours and complex discriminations need to be learned for people to use ORT correctly. The benefits of functionally analysing the components of current ORT campaigns are highlighted.

Child mortality levels and survival patterns from Southern Sudan

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Roth ◽  
K. Balan Kurup
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Maternal Education ◽  
Child Survival ◽  
Oral Rehydration Therapy ◽  
Childhood Mortality ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
Oral Rehydration ◽  
Survival Patterns

SummaryData from a 1985 survey in two major population centres in Southern Sudan, Juba and Wau, were analysed in order to assess childhood mortality levels and the effect of UNICEF's health care programme. There are continuing high levels of childhood mortality. Logistic regression analysis shows significant positive associations between child survival and immunization, oral rehydration therapy and maternal education.

Evaluation of mothers' knowledge about oral rehydration therapy and sodium concentration in homemade sugar salt solutions

2001 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 481-6
Author(s):  
Lauro Virgílio de Sena ◽  
Helcio de S. Maranhão ◽  
Mauro B. Morais
Keyword(s):  
Oral Rehydration Therapy ◽  
Sodium Concentration ◽  
Salt Solutions ◽  
Oral Rehydration

scholarly journals Issues and Controversies in the Evolution of Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
David Nalin
Keyword(s):  
Pediatric Patients ◽  
Oral Rehydration Therapy ◽  
Sodium Balance ◽  
Plain Water ◽  
Oral Glucose ◽  
Oral Rehydration ◽  
Low Sodium ◽  
Current Review ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Rehydration Solution

The original studies demonstrating the efficacy of oral glucose-electrolytes solutions in reducing or eliminating the need for intravenous therapy to correct dehydration caused by acute watery diarrheas (AWD) were focused chiefly on cholera patients. Later research adapted the oral therapy (ORT) methodology for treatment of non-cholera AWDs including for pediatric patients. These adaptations included the 2:1 regimen using 2 parts of the original WHO oral rehydration solution (ORS) formulation followed by 1 part additional plain water, and a “low sodium” packet formulation with similar average electrolyte and glucose concentrations when dissolved in the recommended volume of water. The programmatic desire for a single ORS packet formulation has led to controversy over use of the “low sodium” formulations to treat cholera patients. This is the subject of the current review, with the conclusion that use of the low-sodium ORS to treat cholera patients leads to negative sodium balance, leading to hyponatremia and, in severe cases, particularly in pediatric cholera, to seizures and other complications of sodium depletion. Therefore it is recommended that two separate ORS packet formulations be used, one for cholera therapy and the other for non-cholera pediatric AWD.

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