tailieunhanh - Maternal and Child Health Care

We hasten to point out that there is no such thing as a value-free or objectively scientific perspective on the recommended solutions. The status quo implies acceptance of the values that drive systems now – even if those values are not often acknowledged and made explicit. If the current state of global health is unacceptable, if the status quo needs to be transformed, then consciously identifying and addressing the values that operate in health-related decisionmaking in households, communities, districts, nations, and globally -- and the relationship of those values to the distribution of. | Lecture Notes Health Science Students Maternal and Child Health Care Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative Mesfin Addisse . . University of Gondar In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative The Carter Center the Ethiopia Ministry of Health and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education January 2003 USAID FROM the AMERICAN PEOPLE Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00. Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative The Carter Center the Ethiopia Ministry of Health and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education. Important Guidelines for Printing and Photocopying Limited permission is granted free of charge to print or photocopy all pages of this publication for educational not-for-profit use by health care workers students or faculty. All copies must retain all author credits and copyright notices included in the original document. Under no circumstances is it permissible to sell or distribute on a commercial basis or to claim authorship of copies of material reproduced from this publication. 2003 by Mesfin Addisse All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided above no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission of the author or authors. This material is intended for educational use only by practicing health care workers or students and faculty in a health care field. i Preface I have been teaching Maternal and Child Health course for Health Officer Public Health Nursing Clinical Nursing and Midwifery students for the last five years. To prepare this lecture note specially for degree students I have tried to compile and emphasis on issues that the students specially health Officers recommended as a very relevant for their future practice b areas which are not given much emphasis in Gyn-Obs and paediatric .