Important of Maternal and Child Healthcare
The wellbeing of mothers and their children determines the next generation of health and can also help predict health challenges for families, their medical care team, and communities in the future. In addition, healthy outcomes and early diagnosis and treatment of health conditions among children and women can help prevent disability and death hence helping children to reach their full potential. Even after major healthcare advances and critical threats to infants, maternal and child health still exists in the U.S and other parts of the world. One of the world’s major challenges is reducing the rate of ante-natal and preterm births that rose by more than 20 percent from 1990 to 2006. Another major challenge is taking care of the birth ratio by reducing the infant death rate, which has remained high since 2011. Impacts of maternal and children health According to statistics, more that 80 percent of U.S women will become pregnant and give birth to one or more childre