Module 04: Maternal and Child Health Program Flashcards
This program by the Department of Health aims to improve health outcomes for mothers, infants, and children in the Philippines.
The Maternal and Child Health Program
What is the goal of the maternal and child health program?
This program focuses on reducing maternal, neonatal, and child mortality by providing quality health care services across different stages of pregnancy and early childhood.
This pre-pregnancy initiative promotes awareness about family planning, reproductive health, proper nutrition, and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Health Education and Counseling
This service provides contraceptive options to help couples plan and space pregnancies effectively.
Family Planning Services
This type of care focuses on optimizing women’s health before pregnancy, addressing any pre-existing conditions like diabetes and hypertension.
Preconception Care
This aspect of the pre-pregnancy phase focuses on ensuring proper nutrition for women to support a healthy pregnancy in the future.
Women’s Nutrition.
This phase ensures at least four prenatal check-ups, monitoring for complications, and providing tetanus immunizations, as well as iron and folic acid supplements during pregnancy.
Antenatal Care
This phase encourages delivery at healthcare facilities to ensure skilled birth attendance and access to emergency obstetric services if needed.
Health Facility Deliveries
This provides nutritional counseling and supplements to prevent conditions like anemia during pregnancy.
Nutritional Support
This intervention is provided to prevent malaria infection during pregnancy, protecting both mother and fetus.
Preventative Treatment for Malaria
This preventive measure aims to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of infections during pregnancy.
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission.
This ensures that births are attended by skilled health professionals, like midwives, doctors, or nurses, who can manage normal deliveries and recognize complications early.
Skilled Birth Attendance
This procedure involves screening newborns for conditions like congenital hypothyroidism and phenylketonuria to allow for early intervention.
Newborn Screening
This care protocol provides immediate care after birth, including early skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding initiation, and proper cord care.
Essential Newborn Care
This postnatal service monitors both the mother and child during the first six weeks after birth, addressing any postpartum complications and promoting breastfeeding
Postnatal checkups
This involves surgical intervention and emergency obstetric care to manage high-risk pregnancies or complications during delivery.
Cesarean Section and Emergency Obstetric Care
This initiative encourages exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, providing support and resources to mothers.
Breastfeeding Support
This service offers family planning counseling and resources for birth spacing and managing future pregnancies postpartum.
Family Planning
This aspect of postnatal care focuses on monitoring the health of both mother and baby after birth.
Postnatal care for Mother and Baby
This program encourages feeding practices for infants and young children to ensure adequate nutrition and growth.
infant and Young Child Feeding
This childhood health initiative provides a series of vaccines to protect children from diseases such as measles, polio, hepatitis, and tuberculosis.
Immunizations
This program addresses malnutrition through growth monitoring, micronutrient supplementation, and food fortification.
Nutrition Programs
This program focuses on the prevention and management of common childhood illnesses, including diarrhea, pneumonia, and malnutrition.
Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
This program ensures that developmental milestones are met for children and that any delays or disabilities are identified early for proper intervention.
Child Development and Screening
This is the end-referral facility in the MNCHN Service Delivery Network that provides services such as blood transfusions, Cesarean sections, and advanced newborn care, operating 24 hours with a team of OB/surgeons, pediatricians, nurses, midwives, and medical technologists.
End-Referral Facility (e.g., Provincial Hospitals)
This service is available at district hospitals, rural health units, and private lying-in clinics, providing normal vaginal deliveries, imminent breech deliveries, essential newborn care, basic newborn resuscitation, and family planning services.
BEmONC Facility (Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care).
This level of the MNCHN Service Delivery Network includes community health teams providing pregnancy tracking, birth planning, home visits, follow-up, nutrition packages, breastfeeding support, and family planning education.
Community Level Service Provider
This network is established in all provinces to provide both basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care to ensure maternal and newborn health. What is it?
BEmONC-CEmONC Network.
This type of care ensures that pregnant women have access to at least four prenatal visits to monitor both maternal and fetal health, providing services like iron and folic acid supplements, tetanus toxoid vaccination, and screening for infections like HIV and syphilis.
Antenatal Care
This initiative promotes delivery by trained health professionals, such as doctors, nurses, or midwives, to reduce childbirth risks and encourages institutional deliveries in facilities where emergency obstetric care can be provided.
Skilled Birth Attendance
This facility is part of the MNCHN Service Delivery Network and is located within a 1-hour distance from BEmONC facilities, supporting pregnant women and infants with emergency care
Rural Health Unit (RHU)
Located within 30 minutes of homes, this facility provides access to essential obstetric and newborn care, ensuring timely emergency services close to the community.
Barangay Health Station
This type of care ensures that facilities are equipped to manage complications like hemorrhage, infections, and hypertensive disorders, improving access to life-saving interventions during and after delivery for high-risk pregnancies.
Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EMONC)
This care is provided for mothers and newborns after birth, monitoring them for complications such as postpartum hemorrhage or infections, and promoting breastfeeding, family planning, and health education.
Postpartum Care
What does postpartum care promote?
(A) Breastfeeding
(B) Family Planning
(C) Heath Education
This program offers counseling and services aimed at managing birth spacing, which is essential for reducing maternal and child health risks, and includes modern contraceptive methods to prevent unintended pregnancies.
Family planning
What does family planning include?
(A) Modern Contraceptive Methods
(B) Educate mothers about the risks of closely spaced pregnancies.
This initiative involves community-based health promotion to raise awareness about safe motherhood, family planning, and prenatal care, empowering women and families to make informed decisions regarding maternal health and childbirth
Health Education
This Republic Act established a public health program in the Philippines to identify infants with serious genetic, metabolic, or endocrine conditions that can lead to significant health problems if not detected early.
RA 9288 or the Newborn Screening Act of 2004 (included in the Philhealth Newborn Package)
When was the RA 9288 or the Newborn Screening Act of 2004 established?
April 7 2004
This set of regulations was implemented on October 5, 2004, to guide the execution of the Newborn Screening Act in the Philippines.
Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR)
This public health program screens infants shortly after birth to detect serious conditions that can lead to intellectual disabilities, severe health complications, or death if untreated. What is the primary purpose of newborn screening?
To identify rare genetic, metabolic, or endocrine conditions.
What is the recommended time frame for newborn screening?
24 TO 72 HOURS AFTER BIRTH
What is the integral part of Newborn Care Screening?
Integral Newborn Care (INBC), which includes administering Vitamin K, BCG and Hepatitis B.
This disorder affects the adrenal glands and leads to an imbalance in hormone production (cortisol and aldosterone), potentially causing life-threatening salt loss. Early diagnosis allows for prompt hormone replacement therapy.
Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH)
Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) can lead to what?
(A) Life threatening salt loss
(B) May affect growth and development
This condition occurs when the thyroid gland fails to produce enough hormones, leading to developmental delays and intellectual disabilities if untreated
Hypothyroidism
How do you prevent hypothyroidism?
Thyroid hormone replacement therapy
This metabolic disorder prevents the body from breaking down the amino acid phenylalanine, potentially resulting in intellectual disabilities if untreated.
Phenylketonuria (PKU).
How do you mitigate the effects of Phenylketonuria (PKU)?
Low phenylalanine Diet
This disorder affects the body’s ability to break down galactose.
Galactosemia
Galactosemia may lead to what?
(A) Intellectual Disabilities
(B) Liver Damage
(C) Sepsis
These disorders involve the body’s inability to properly metabolize organic acids, leading to a buildup of toxic substances, which can cause neurological issues and metabolic crises if not managed.
Organic Acid Disorders
What are the two organic acid disorders?
(A) Methylmalonic Acidemia
(B) Isovaleric Acidemia
These disorders affect the body’s ability to break down fatty acids for energy.
Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders.
Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders can lead to what?
(A) Hypoglycemia
(B) Liver Disease
(C) Muscle Weakness
What are two examples of fatty acid oxidation disorders?
(A) Medium Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (MCADD)
(B) Long Chain Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (LCHADD)
This category of disorders affects the hemoglobin in red blood cells, and an example included in expanded screening is Hemoglobin E disease.
Hemoglobinopathies