in improving mother and child health
Improving the health of mothers, newborn babies and young children is one of the most highly desired aims of the Albanian government, which is striving to bring infant and maternal mortality rates close to the average of the WHO European Region. In support of this effort, the Ministry of Health is carrying out a maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) care reform project with the assistance of WHO and financing from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development. The main objective is to improve maternal, newborn and child health care, using a health system approach to ensure quality and continuity of care. It is crucial in working with the community to reach, hear and respond to the needs of families, especially women, as this valuable information is scarce and it is not always used in the development of health policies and programmes. A special emphasis is also being put on the need to reorganize school health services with a shift in the focus from curative care to prevention and health promotion so as to improve nutrition, reduce illnesses and reduce the main risky and dangerous childhood behaviour. For the growing and changing needs of pupils to be met, school health services need special improvements and, in particular, school nurses’ skills and knowledge need to be broadened. In the social context, maternal and child health is the foundation of a healthy society. This is why working to improve maternal and child health is the best investment Albania can make for its future.
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