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YEAR: 1991

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

IAP-IPA-WHO-UNICEF Workshop on Strategies and Approaches for Women's Health,

Child Health and Family Planning for the Decade of Nineties, 22nd-23rd

January 1991, Hyderabad.

AUTHORS

Bhargava SK; Hallman N; Shah PM

SOURCE

INDIAN PEDIATRICS. 1991 Dec;28(12):1481-2.

ABSTRACT

In 1991, health professionals attended a workshop to develop strategies and approaches for women's health, child

health, and family planning for the 1990s in Hyderabad, India. The Ministry of Health (MOH) of India should improve

and strengthen existing health facilities, manpower, materials, and supplies. It should not continue vertical

programs dedicated to 1 disease or a few problems. Instead it should integrate programs. The government must

stop allocating more funds to family planning services than to MCH services. It should equally appropriate funds to

family planning, family welfare, and MCH. The MOH should implement task force recommendations on minimum

prenatal care (1982) and maternal mortality (1987) to strengthen prenatal care, delivery services, and newborn care.

Health workers must consider newborns as individuals and allot them their own bed in the hospital. All district and

city hospitals should have an intermediate or Level II care nursery to improve neonatal survival. In addition, the

country has the means to improve child health services. The most effective means to improve health services and

community utilization is training all health workers, revision of basic curricula, and strengthen existing facilities.

Family planning professionals should use couple protection time rather than couple protection rate. The should also

target certain contraceptives to specific age groups. Mass media can disseminate information to bring about

behavioral and social change such as increasing marriage age. Secondary school teachers should teach sex

education. Health professionals must look at the total female instead of child, adolescent, pregnant woman, and

reproductive health. Integrated Child Development Services should support MCH programs. Operations research

should be used to evaluate the many parts of MCH programs. The government needs to promote community

participation in MCH services. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 2055-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "IAP-IPA-WHO-UNICEF Workshop on Strategies and

Approaches for Women's Health, Child Health and Family Planning for the Decade of Nineties, 22nd-23rd January

1991, Hyderabad.", is(are) Bhargava SK; Hallman N; Shah PM. The source of this article is "INDIAN PEDIATRICS.

1991 Dec;28(12):1481-2.". This article was published in 1991 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document

ID: CONT3T 2055-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 12055

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