In response to Making Pregnancy Safer, what are the current programs in the country to address maternal mortality and morbidity? Cite at least 1.
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Safe Motherhood Program
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The National Safe Motherhood Program primarily focuses on the health and welfare of women throughout their pregnancy. This program aims to provide Filipino women access to quality healthcare for a safer pregnancy and delivery. It aims to promote the health and well-being of mothers of a Filipino family.
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Unang Yakap: Essential Newborn Care
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ENC is a simple cost-effective newborn care intervention that can improve neonatal as well as maternal care
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Family Planning Program
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The National Family Planning Program aims to ensure every Filipino has a universal access to correct information, medically safe, legal, non-abortifacient, effective, and culturally acceptable modern family planning (FP) methods. Specifically, this program aims to increase the modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) to 30% from 25% in 2017.
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What can you suggest in order to decrease our maternal mortality and morbidity in the country? Give at least 3 suggestions.
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Legalization of abortion - According to the lecture, abortion is on the top 4 leading causes of maternal mortality. It is mainly because of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, and pregnant women tend to seek the help of unlicensed persons to do the procedure, which is commonly unsafe and unclean. Thus, legalizing abortion would decrease the illegal ways and it would be done properly by professionals.
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Accessible healthcare facilities with complete equipment - Most women delay seeking medical care due to their socioeconomic status, difficult access to adequate medical facilities due to geographical factors, and if they find one, the facilities do not have the complete equipment to tend to their needs. Thus, accessible health facilities would help especially those pregnant women in a far-flung areas
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Maternal Education - It is a complex process aimed at enabling women to obtain knowledge, skills and emotional support so that they can take care of themselves and their child during pregnancy, the postpartum period and childrearing (Paz - Pascual, 2019).
Reference:
Department of Health (n.d.). List of Health Programs. Retrieved from https://doh.gov.ph/health-programs?page=18
Paz - Pascual (2019). Consensus on priorities in maternal education: results of Delphi and nominal group technique approaches. Retrieved from https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-019-2382-8#:~:text=Maternal%20education%20is%20a%20complex,period%20and%20childrearing%20%5B1%5D.