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It is sponsored by, among other organizations, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health, and CityMatCH. The editor-in-chief is Timothy Dye (University of Rochester School of Medicine). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.788. [1]
Maternal health is the health of people during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.In most cases, maternal health encompasses the health care dimensions of family planning, preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care in order to ensure a positive and fulfilling experience.
The Maternal and Child Health Handbook was originally developed in Japan. However, in the 1980s, an Indonesian doctor who was visiting Japan through a training program of the semi-governmental corporation of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) noticed its effectiveness in contributing to the health of mothers and children and decided to promote it in his own country. [14]
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"The geography and politics of maternal care in the USA: introduction". Death in childbirth: an international study of maternal care and maternal mortality, 1800–1950. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 274– 280. ISBN 978-0-19-822997-1. Meckel, Richard (1990). Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality.
Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act of 2021 This bill provides authority to the Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to support care networks for maternal health in rural areas. [39] [41] Protecting Moms Who Served This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to implement the maternity care coordination program.
Prenatal care, also known as antenatal care, is a type of preventive healthcare for pregnant individuals. It is provided in the form of medical checkups, consisting of recommendations on managing a healthy lifestyle and the provision of medical information such as maternal physiological changes in pregnancy, biological changes, and prenatal nutrition including prenatal vitamins, which prevents ...