Title	Primary Maternal and Neonatal Health [electronic resource] : A Global Concern / edited by Fe del Mundo, Elena Ines-Cuyegkeng, Domingo M. Aviado
Imprint	Boston, MA : Springer US, 1983
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3608-2
Descript	XX, 544 p. online resource

The First International Congress on Maternal and Neonatal Health (IAMANEH) chose as its theme Primary Maternal and Neonatal Health Care: A Global Concern. If the primary goal of all World Health Organization member states of "Health For All By The Year 2000" is to be met, the most difficult challenge lies in the area of maternal and neonatal health care. Indeed, the preventable mortalยญ ity of mothers and their newborns related to the quality of maternity care extracts a greater toll in life expectยญ ancy than any specific disease category. Such mortality is but the tip of an iceberg of morbidity that saps the quality of life of a majority of this world's citizens. They are the less privileged by accident of birth only. An intolerable situation exists. These Proceedings reflect a world concern by mñ̃sยญ ters of health, academicians, scientists and providers of maternal and neonatal care. No blueprint is offered for solution of this world's greatest health problem. But the Proceedings do contain an accurate description of the problem and revealing epidemiological diagnoses that both lay bare deficiencies in care and suggest the way to imยญ prove "health for all". The implications of these papers will not bring comfort to those responsible for the allocation of scarce resources for health. They rather suggest radical changes are needed and that failure to make these changes could mean a catastrophic and meaningยญ less loss of life during the balance of this century

Section I Keynote Reviews -- Report of the Executive Board to the General Assembly on the Development and Activities of IAMANEH -- Maternal Aspects of Maternal and Neonatal Health โ{128}{148} A Global Concern -- Primary Maternal and Neonatal Health: A Global Concern โ{128}{148} Pediatric Aspects -- Section II: Maternal Health, Neonatal Care and Family Planning -- Interrelations Between Maternal and Neonatal Health and Family Planning: Conceptualization of the Theme -- Health Benefits of Appropriate Timing, Spacing and Avoiding High Parity and Risks of Unplanned Fertility for the Mother -- The Effect of Parity, Birth Intervals and Maternal Age on the Health of the Child -- Socio-Economic, Cultural and Psychological Acceptability of Fertility Control for Protecting the Life and Health of Mother and Infant -- Section III: Future Prospects of Family Planning Programs -- Future Prospects of Family Planning Programs -- Social Benefits of Family Planning -- Health Consequences of Unplanned Pregnancies Versus Contraception -- Systemic Contraception at Primary Health Care Level and Who Should Apply Them -- Intrauterine Device Insertion at the Primary Health Care Level: Who Should Apply Them? -- Mobile Facilities for Vasectomy โ{128}{148} A Rational Approach for A Developing Country -- Prospects for A Future Family Planning Program โ{128}{148} What Contraceptive Techniques are Feasible at the Primary Health Care Level and Who Should Apply Them: Barrier Methods -- Reversible Methods of Fimbrial Enclosure -- Section IV: Prevention and Cure of Prevalent Infections -- Prevention and Cure of Prevalent Infections in the Mother and the Newborn -- Prevention and Management of Maternal Infectious Diseases During Pregnancy -- Synergism Between Malnutrition and Infection in Infants -- Epidemic of Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Its Possible Viral Origin -- Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus and Its Prevention by HBIG -- Section V: Search for Risk Factors Influencing Reproduction -- Monitoring Incomplete Abortion Care at Dacca Medical College -- Study on the Onset of the First Ovulation During the Puerperium -- Smoking and Reproduction -- Environmental Chemicals and Drugs Influencing the Fetus -- Section VI: Maternal and Neonatal Health Care Monitoring -- Maternity Care Monitoring: A New Information System -- Maternity Care and Perinatal Mortality in Indonesia -- Analysis of Data and its Impact on Strategies for Maternal and Neonatal Care -- Maternity Care Monitoring in Twenty-Two Hospitals in West Java -- Concise Screening Scales for High-Risk Mothers and Newborns -- Ten to Fifteen Year Follow-Up of Cases of Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia Treated with Exchange Transfusion -- Section VII: Strategies for Implementation of Recent Knowledge and Technology Relating to Maternal and Neonatal Health Within Primary Health Care -- Present Perspective of Maternal and Neonatal Health in Pakistan and an Approach to the Problem Through Primary Health Care -- Causes of Maternal Deaths and Strategies for Their Prevention -- Systematic Maternal Health Care in Shanghai -- Achievements in Perinatal and Maternal Health: Survival in Japan -- Achievements in Maternal and Neonatal Health: Survival in Sri Lanka -- Causes of Perinatal Deaths and Prevention in the Context of Primary Health Care in Ghana -- Maternal Mortality at IFE University Teaching Hospital Complex -- Section VIII: Stragegies for Training Primary Health Care Personnel -- Family Planning Strategies For the โ{128}{152}80S -- Maternal and Neonatal Health Strategies in International Health Programs Within The Context of Primary Health Care -- Development of Manpower for Application of Existing Technologies Which are feasible Within Primary Health Care -- Traditional Way of Maternal and Child Health Care in Rajasthan, India -- Training and Supervision of Traditional Birth Attendants at the Primary Health Care Center Level -- Utilization of Mothers For some Aspects of Primary Health Care in Philippine Barangays (Villages) -- Section IX: Concluding Remarks -- Future Global Challenge of Primary Maternal and Neonatal Health -- Contributors and Participants