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Breastfeeding is recommended exclusively for the first six months and continued with complementary foods thereafter. It provides numerous physical, psychological, and economic benefits for infants, mothers, families, and societies. These benefits include improved infant nutrition, immunity, and hydration as well as reduced risks of various diseases for mothers. Midwives play an important role in promoting breastfeeding and other healthy practices through hilot training programs that educate traditional birth attendants to fill gaps in health services, especially in remote areas. The Expanded Program on Immunization launched in 1976 aims to reduce child mortality from six vaccine-preventable diseases through a community-based, integrated public health approach.
Breastfeeding is recommended exclusively for the first six months and continued with complementary foods thereafter. It provides numerous physical, psychological, and economic benefits for infants, mothers, families, and societies. These benefits include improved infant nutrition, immunity, and hydration as well as reduced risks of various diseases for mothers. Midwives play an important role in promoting breastfeeding and other healthy practices through hilot training programs that educate traditional birth attendants to fill gaps in health services, especially in remote areas. The Expanded Program on Immunization launched in 1976 aims to reduce child mortality from six vaccine-preventable diseases through a community-based, integrated public health approach.
Breastfeeding is recommended exclusively for the first six months and continued with complementary foods thereafter. It provides numerous physical, psychological, and economic benefits for infants, mothers, families, and societies. These benefits include improved infant nutrition, immunity, and hydration as well as reduced risks of various diseases for mothers. Midwives play an important role in promoting breastfeeding and other healthy practices through hilot training programs that educate traditional birth attendants to fill gaps in health services, especially in remote areas. The Expanded Program on Immunization launched in 1976 aims to reduce child mortality from six vaccine-preventable diseases through a community-based, integrated public health approach.
Exclusive breastfeeding of infants recommended for the first six months of
their lives and breastfeeding with complementary foods thereafter. Breastfeeding has many physical and psychological benefits for children and mother as well as economic benefits for families and societies. The Benefits of Breastfeeding To Infants Provides a nutritional complete food for the young infant. Strengthens the infants immune system, preventing many infections. Safely rehydrates and provides essential nutrients to a sick child, especially to those suffering from diarrheal diseases. Reduces the infants exposure to infection. To Mother Reduces a womans risk of excessive blood loss after birth. Provides a natural methods of delaying pregnancies. Reduces the risk of ovarian and breast cancers and osteoporosis. To Household and the Community Conserve funds that otherwise would be spent on breast milk substitute, supplies and fuel to prepare them. Saves medical cost to families and government by preventing illnesses and by providing immediate postpartum and contraception. HILOT TRAINING All mothers and children need care and attention especially during crucial stages in their lives. Several types of health providers give various services, but compared to all others, the public health nurses and midwives are the ones mother and children see most often. Midwives are the most accessible professional health care provider. However, midwives are not always there all the time. Midwives must therefore multiply knowledge, attitudes and practices that promote good health. Traditional birth attendants (TBAs) or hilots extend various health services to the community levels.
Health continue to exist because they continue to fulfill services and
fill-in gaps in health services, be these geographical (as in far flung areas): financial ( professional obstetrical care may be unaffordable): or cultural (some mothers still prefer the hilots for their additional support in household chores). Midwives who conduct good and effective hilot training courses (using Hilot Training Manual) not only establish themselves as their trainer in the community, but also as dependable allies of the communities they serve.
EXPANDED PROGRAM ON IMMUNIZATION
The Expanded Program on Immunization was launched in July 1976 by the Department of Health in cooperation with the World Health Organization and the UNICEF. The original objective was to reduce the morbidity and mortality among infants and children caused by the six childhood immunizable diseases. Principles The program is based on epidemiological situation; schedules are drawn on the basis of the occurrence and characteristic epidemiological features of the disease. The whole community rather than just the individual is to be protected, thus mass approach is utilized. Immunization is a basic health service and such it is integrated in to the health services being provided for by the Rural Health Unit.