Re-thinking of Post-PartumCare: A Strategic Review

Agency : ICMR

Bringing care closer to women and bringing women closer to care can remove the distance between women and health services. Improving the quality of post-partum care requires a well-considered and carefully implemented approach. Constituting as a major public health problem, post-partum care, assessment on proper intervention through research on the scope, causes, cost and consequences of post-partum care can be useful for advocacy and programme design. The proposed study aimed at assessing the impact of Post-Partum Amenorrhea programme in India on the availability, quality and utilization of and access to post-partum care services. It also sought to examine the reproductive health care services in the light of post-partum care services. The potential importance of the study was to strengthen post-partum services along with reproductive and child health approach to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. The intervention study promoted and adopted the following strategies:

  • help-line through referral transportation scheme
  • Adolescent as social agents within family
  • Male involvement in family building process
  • Monitoring through Panchayati Raj institution in breaking the cultural nexus
  • Skill and capacity building programmes for service provides to meet demand

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