Child Health Programs

• What is the goal of child health programs?

  To reduce morbidity and mortality rates (for children 0-9yrs)
• To reduce child mortality rate by 2/3 in 2015

  Infant & Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Goal
• To improve health and nutrition status of infants and young children

  Infant & Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Objective
• To improve exclusive and extended breastfeeding and complementary feeding

  Infant & Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Outcome
• This means giving a baby only breast milk, and no other liquids or solids, not even water.

  Exclusive breastfeeding
• Initiate breastfeeding within _____ after birth

  1 hour
• Exclusive for the first ____ of life

  6 months
• Complemented at 6 months with ______ _____

  appropriate food
• Extend breastfeeding up to ____ and beyond

  2 years
• Complementary foods should be (TAS)

  T

  Timely
• Complementary foods should be (TAS)

  A

  Adequate
• Complementary foods should be (TAS)

  S

  Safe
• Products covered consist of breast milk substitutes, including infant formula; other milk products, food and beverages, including bottle-fed complementary foods.

  EO 51: Milk Code
• To promote room-in and to encourage. Protect and support the practice of breastfeeding.

  RA 7600: Rooming-In and Breastfeeding Act of 1992
• The law requires a mandatory food fortification of staple foods – rice, flour, edible oil and sugar and voluntary food fortification of processed food or food products

  RA 8976: Food Fortification Law
• Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months

  RA 10028: Expanded Breastfeeding Act of 2010
• Principle: It is safe and immunologically effective to administer all EPI vaccines on the same day at different sites of the body

  PD 996: EPI Law
• True or False: PD 996

  Vaccine schedule should be restarted

  False
• True or False: PD 996

  Measles Vaccine should be given as soon as the child is 9 months old

  True
• True or False: PD 996

  If the child is living in an endemic area, give the Measles vaccine as early as 6 months.

  True
• True or False: PD 996

  Extras must be given to children/ mother who missed a dose of DPT/Hepa-B/OPV/TT

  False
• True or False: PD 996

  Strictly follow the principle of never, ever reconstituting the freeze dried vaccines other than the diluents supplied

  True
• True or False: PD 996

  One syringe, one needle per 3 children during vaccination

  False: should only be one child
• An act providing for mandatory basic immunization services for infants and children.

  RA 10152 of 2011
• Contraindications: Absolute or False?

  Malnutrition

  False
• Contraindications: Absolute or False?

  Low grade fever

  False
• Contraindications: Absolute or False?

  DPT 2 or 3 to a child who had convulsions/shock w/n 3 days the previous dose

  Absolute
• Contraindications: Absolute or False?

  Mild respiratory infections

  False
• Contraindications: Absolute or False?

  Cough

  False
• Contraindications: Absolute or False?

  Diarrhea

  False
• Contraindications: Absolute or False?

  With neurologic disease should not be given vaccines containing whole cell pertussis

  Absolute
• Contraindications: Absolute or False?

  Immunosuppressed patients should not be given live vaccines like BCG

  Absolute
• Contraindications: Absolute or False?

  Vomiting

  False
• Goal: improve quality of life of Filipinos through better nutrition, improved health, and increased productivity

  Nutrition Program
• Common Nutritional Deficiencies (AII)

  A

  Vitamin A
• Common Nutritional Deficiencies (AII)

  I

  Iron
• Common Nutritional Deficiencies (AII)

  I

  Iodide
• Goal: Reduce the prevalence rate of dental caries and periodontal diseases from 92% in 1998 to 85% and from 78% in 1998 to 60% by 2010 among general population

  Oral Health Programs
• Classification of Oral Interventions

  • Health Education

  Promotive Service
• Classification of Oral Interventions

  • Oral exam

  Preventive Treatment