Practical Mother and Child Health in Developing Countries

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Maternal and Child Health: Introduction....Pages 1-6
Antenatal Care....Pages 7-13
Nutrition of the Pregnant Woman....Pages 14-16
The Delivery of the Baby....Pages 17-19
Care of the Newborn....Pages 20-23
Resuscitation of the Newborn....Pages 24-27
The Low Birth Weight Baby....Pages 28-33
Breast-Feeding....Pages 34-38
Growth and Development....Pages 39-41
Weaning....Pages 42-45
The Under-fives Clinic....Pages 46-55
Immunisation in Childhood....Pages 56-61
Feeding the Infant and Young Child....Pages 62-65
Nutrition Rehabilitation....Pages 66-71
The Pre-school Child....Pages 72-76
Day Care Centres....Pages 77-78
Problems of Urbanisation....Pages 79-81
Health Education....Pages 82-83
Home-visiting....Pages 84-86
The ‘At Risk’ Concept....Pages 87-90
Community Participation in Health Programmes....Pages 91-96
School Health Service....Pages 97-100
Assessing Health Programmes....Pages 101-105
Prevention of Communicable Diseases in Children....Pages 106-108
Clean Water....Pages 109-114
Handicapping and Chronic Illnesses....Pages 115-123
Child Spacing....Pages 124-128
Back Matter....Pages 129-130