LEVEL 6: CHILD'S HEALTH PROGRAM Flashcards
These are the vulnerable age groups for common childhood diseases.
Newborns, infants, and children
Risk for infection is higher when:
- Not screened for metabolic disorder (NST)
- Not exclusively breastfed
- Not given vitamin supplementation
- Unvaccinated
- Not properly managed when sick
This risk for infection can lead to health complications, even death.
Not properly managed when sick
Screening for metabolic disorders are done to prevent what?
To prevent mental retardation
What is the purpose of vitamin supplementation to the vulnerable age group?
Proper development
What is the main goal of child’s health programs?
Reduce infant mortality to 15 deaths per 1000 live births (NOH 2017-2022)
Under-5 Mortality prioritizes what?
25 deaths per 1000 live births in every country
Reduce Neonatal Mortality prioritizes what?
At least as low as 12 deaths per 1000 live births
By 2030, this aims to end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3.2)
Enumerate all the Child Health Programs
- Newborn Package (Newborn Screening, Hearing Screening Test)
- Infant and Young Child Feeding
- Micronutrient Supplementation
- Child Health Injuries
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI)
- Explaned Program on Immunization (EPI)
This program is a response to the call of the United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to reduce mortality of children aged five years old and below.
Garantisadong Pambata (GP)
This is a strategic framework for planning programs and interventions that promote and safeguard the rights of Filipino children
Child 21 or Children’s Health 2025
True or False:
Health is a critical and fundamental element in a child’s welfare.
True
Enumerate at least 3:
Vision of Child 21 - A healthy Filipino child is:
- Wanted, planned, and conceived by healthy parents carried to term by healthy mothers
- Screened for congenital defects shortly after birth
- Exclusively breastfed for at least 6mos of age up to 2 years and complementary foods at about 6mos of age
- Provided with safe, clean and hygienic surroundings and protected from accidents, offered equal access to quality curative, preventive, promotive health care services and health education
- Regularly monitored for proper growth and development
- Provide with adequate psychosocial and mental stimulation screened for disabilities and
developmental delays in early childhood - Protected from discrimination, exploitation, and abuse
- Empowered and enable to make decisions regarding healthy lifestyle and behaviors
This program is an institutionalized nationwide health campaign conducted every 3rd week of April & October
Garantisadong Pambata
Garantisadong Pambata aims for two things:
- Deliver a package of health services to children under 5 years of age
- Provide relevant health information for parents and caretakers
This is a PhilHealth benefit package given to newborns during the first few days of life (newborns are 28 days old and below)
Newborn Care Package
Enumeration
The Newborn Care Package covers 3 programs/tests:
- Essential Newborn Care
- Newborn Screening Test
- Hearing Screening Tests
This involves numerous health practices to newborn care which have been proven to improve the health outcomes of the baby
Essential Newborn Package
Enumerate at least 5:
What are the health practices provided from the Essential Newborn Package?
- Immediate drying of the baby
- Early skin-to-skin contact
- timely cord clamping
- Non-separation of mother/baby for early breastfeeding initiation
- Eye prophylaxis
- Vitamin K administration
7.Weighing of the baby - First dose of hepatitis B vaccine
- First dose of BCG vaccine
What is the purpose of the provision of eye prophylaxis?
It prevents eye infection
What is the purpose of the Vitamin K administration to newborns?
It forms blood clots
What is the purpose of providing the first dose of BCG vaccine to newborns?
It prevents tuberculosis and leprosy
This is the practice of placing the newborn in the same room as the mother right after delivery
Rooming-in
What is the recommended time duration for a prolonged skin-to-skin contact of the mother and the infant?
90 minutes
This is a blood test done on the newborn after 24 to 72 hours after birth which enables early detection and management of several congenital disorders, which may lead to mental retardation and/or death if untreated.
Comprehensive Newborn Screening Program
Comprehensive Newborn Screening Program is also known as the:
R.A. 9288 - Newborn Screening Act of 2004
What is the goal of Child 21?
To achieve health for all Filipinos by the year 2025
Newborn Screening Program currently includes screening of 6 disorders:
- Congenital Hypothyroidism
- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
- Phenylketonuria
- Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase
- Galactosemia
- Maple Syrup Urine Disease
This program detects up to 28 genetic disorders
Expanded Newborn Screening Program
This program has the objective of all Filipino newborns must be screened by 2030
Newborn Screening Program
Fill in the blanks:
Few drops of blood are taken from the baby’s ________, blotted on a special absorbent filter card and then will be sent to Newborn Screening Center (NSC)
Baby’s heel
True or False:
Blood sample of NBS can only be collected strictly by physicians, nurses, and medical technologists.
False, because a trained midwife can collect the samples too.
When can the results of NBS be claimed?
7-14 working das from the time samples are received at the Newborn Screening Center
This is a test done on the newborn to detect congenital hearing loss.
Newborn Hearing Screening Test
Newborn Hearing Screening Test establishes what republic act?
R.A. 9709 - Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) and Intervention Act of 2009
What is the percentage of newborns that are detected to have hearing loss in the Philippines?
0.14%
Enumerate at least 3:
Some of the 28 expanded disorders detected by the NBS are:
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Biotinidase Disease
- Organic Acid Disorders
- Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders
- Amino Acid Disorder
- Urea Cycle Disorder
- Hemoglobin Disorders
