Community-Based Maternal, Newborn and Child Care: A Wining Strategy for Improving Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries

Abstract:

The high prevalence and incidence of maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality that occurs in rural and resource-deprived communities of the developing countries such as Nigeria can be attributed mostly to the lack of access to adequate healthcare or the absence of skilled health care workers such as midwives, doctors or trained nurses that would have provided the required skilled-care during the crucial period of pregnancy, childbirth and after child birth. To improve maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes thereby halting its undesirable antithesis in maternal, newborn, and child morbidity and mortality, an integrated strategy, that has as one of its major components as community-based care is seriously needed. Community-based maternal, newborn, and child care functions as an important strategy or machinery for providing a continuum of care in rural and resource-deprived communities of the developing countries aimed at the protection, maintenance and improvement of maternal, newborn and child health.