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IYCF
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Health and Nutrition Care |
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What is Health and Nutrition Care
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Health
and nutrition care form critical components
that ensure survival and optimal growth
and development of infants and young children.
Ideally, health professionals should be
able to promote optimal infant and young
child feeding practices. All professionals
who interact with mothers and their young
children should attain the basic attitudes,
knowledge and skills necessary to integrate
breastfeeding counselling, lactation management,
and infant and young child feeding into
their care. In
spite of the fact that key international
documents indicate clearly how to achieve
the targets by improving the health and
nutrition related services, these subjects
are rarely touched by the mainstream education
system. In fact, they are not adequately
covered in the curricula of health providers.
In addition, it is also seen that many
of these health and nutrition workers
lack adequate skills in counselling for
infant and young child feeding which is
essential for the success of breastfeeding.
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Health and Nutrition Care : INDICATOR 10 in WBTi , an innovative initiative of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) Asia for tracking assessing and monitoring the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
know more visit http://www.worldbreastfeedingtrends.org/
Key question: Do workers in these systems undergo Skills training, and do their pre-service education curriculum support optimal infant and young child feeding; do these services support birth practices, do the policies of health care services support mothers and children, and whether health workers responsibilities to Code are in place? |
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Scoring
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Adequate |
Inadequate |
No Reference |
| 10.1) A review of health provider schools and pre-service education programmes in the country indicates that infant and young child feeding curricula or session plans are adequate/inadequate (see Annex 5) |
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| 10.2) Standards and guidelines for mother-friendly childbirth procedures and support have been developed and disseminated to all facilities and personnel providing maternity care. |
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| 10.3) There are in-service training programmes providing knowledge and skills related to infant and young child feeding for relevant health/nutrition care providers. |
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| 10.4) Health workers are trained with responsibility towards Code implementation as a key input. |
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| 10.5) Infant feeding-related content and skills are integrated, as appropriate, into training programmes focusing on relevant topics (diarrheal disease, acute respiratory infection, IMCI, well-child care, family planning, nutrition, the Code, HIV/AIDS, etc.) |
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| 10.6) These in-service training programmes are being provided throughout the country. |
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.5 |
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| 10.7) Child health policies provide mothers and babies to stay together when one of them is sick |
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.5 |
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Where we are
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India score 3.5 out of 10,
falling in ‘Grade D ’ with ‘Red’ colour ,as they had not
completely accomplished inclusion of adequate curricula in training of health providers.
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for details seeThe State of the World’s Breastfeeding: South Asia Report and India report card
source Assessment
of Status of IYCF: Practice, Policy
and Program: Achievements and Gaps 2005 see report |
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