National Population Policy
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Address
the unmet needs for basic reproductive and child health services, supplies and
infrastructure.
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Reduce
infant and maternal mortality.
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Achieve
universal immunization of children against all vaccine preventable diseases.
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Promote
delayed marriage for girls, not earlier than 18 and preferably after 20 years
of age.
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Achieve
80% institutional deliveries and 100% deliveries by trained persons.
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Achieve
universal access to information /counselling, and services for fertility
regulation and contraception with wide basket of choices.
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Achieve
100% registration of birth, deaths, marriage and pregnancy.
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Contain
the spread of AIDS, and promote greater integration between the management of
reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted infections and the
National AIDS control organization.
·
Integrate
Indian System of Medicine in the provision of reproductive and child health
services and in reaching out to households.
·
Promote
vigorously the small family norm to achieve replacement levels of TFR.
Legislation
The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act -1971
Conditions under which pregnancy can be terminated ( medical,
eugenic, humanitarian, socioeconomic, failure of contraceptive).
Persons who can perform such terminations (Registered Medical
practitioner).
The place where such termination can be performed (institution
approved for the purpose)
Dais were unwilling to
trained and patients will to accept the old customary methods. In 1926 Midwives
Registration Act formed for the purpose of better training of midwives.
Establishment of Indian nursing council and state nursing
council.
The INC was constituted to establish a uniform standard of
education for nurses, midwives, health visitors and auxiliary nurse midwives.
The INC act was passed following an ordinance on December 31st 1947.
The pre-conception & pre-natal diagnostic techniques
(prohibition of sex selection) act — 1994.
This Act may be called "the Pre-Natal Diagnostic
Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Amendment Act, 2002
The Consumer Protection Act, 1986. Right to safety, Right to
informed, Right to choose, Right to be heard, Right to seek compensation.
National programs related to mother and child health
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Maternal
and child health program
·
Integrated
child development service scheme
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Child
Survival and Safe Motherhood program
·
Reproductive
and child health program
·
Janani
Suraksha yojna
Maternal and child health program:
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To
reduce maternal, infant and childhood mortality and morbidity.
·
Promote
reproductive health
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To
promote physical and psychological development of children.
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Integrated
child development service scheme
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Promotion
of maternal and child health and nutrition.
Child Survival and Safe Motherhood program
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Newborn
care
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Immunization
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Prevention
of hypothermia & infection
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Promotion
of exclusive breast feeding
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Referral
of sick newborns
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Management
of acute diarrhea
Reproductive and child health program
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Prevention
and management of unwanted pregnancy
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Antenatal,
delivery and postnatal services
·
Child
survival services for newborns and infants
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Management
of reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases.
Janani Suraksha yojna
·
Reduction
of MMR & IMR
·
Focus
on Institutional delivery
·
NRHM
·
Accredited
Social Health Activists- ASHA - Contraception, Immunization, supply folic acid
tablets.
·
Reduction
in infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate
Janani Shishu Suraksha Yojana
Targeting mother and baby together
for betterment of both .
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