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PubMed1995

[Mothers' clubs: a place for women's health care].

The article relates an investigation realized next to integrant of Mother's Club of the Sanitary District of Perus, in the Municipal of São Paulo. It has how aims to know the its organizational shape and the relation between locals Municipals health institutions and with other women movements. With this to intended to know the concepts about health disease from their members to verify the possibilities of intervention in coletive health. The results reveal in the conceptions of health-disease of their integrants. Observe, however, spaces to intervention in the feeling to mplify the breast-plate of the women about of the their social identity and of the woman's health.

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PubMed1969

Mothers' club.

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Child Welfare↗
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The Rush Mothers' Milk Club: breastfeeding interventions for mothers with very-low-birth-weight infants.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of an evidence-based breastfeeding program (Rush Mothers' Milk Club) for mothers and their very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. DESIGN AND SETTING: Retrospective analysis of hospital records for 207 eligible VLBW infants cared for in a 52-bed urban neonatal intensive-care unit for a 24-month period in 1997-1998. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS: Entire medical records were reviewed for 207 VLBW infants whose mothers (44.9% African American, 35.7% White, 17.9% Latina) were eligible to provide own mothers' milk (OMM). INTERVENTIONS: Standardized evidence-based interventions through the Rush Mothers' Milk Club program. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Lactation initiation rate; mean dose of OMM at 15, 30, and 60 days postbirth; mean percent of fed-hospital days equal to exclusive and some OMM feedings. RESULTS: Lactation initiation rate was 72.9%. Mean dose of OMM over the first 15, 30, and 60 days postbirth was 81.7%, 80.1%, and 66.1%, respectively, of total volume fed. Exclusive and some OMM was received for a mean of 57.2% and 72.5%, respectively, of fed-hospital days. The outcomes for low-income African American women are the highest reported in the literature. CONCLUSION: The Rush Mothers' Milk Club effectively achieved lactation outcomes that approach the national health objective, although the mothers had significant risk factors for initiating and sustaining lactation. The findings have important implications for clinicians, researchers, administrators, and policy makers.

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PubMed1985

[Analysis--of family-planning in urban low-income brackets based on Daejon and Daegu Cities].

Since the inception of the national family planning program in 1962, the main emphasis has been placed on the provision of contraceptive services and information, education, and communication (IEC) activities through home visits by family planning field workers and through government designated private physicians. This approach has been a powerful management system for the national program, particularly in the rural area. However, new issues in the national family planning program emerged with the subsequent socioeconomic changes since 1962. An increasing number of the rural population began to migrate to the urban area, and, therefore, beginning in the 1970s, more weight had to be given to the family planning service for the urban area; in particular, for those in the low-income brackets. In an effort to increase contraceptive acceptors among the urban low-income people, the government has implemented various special projects for them since 1974, through maximum utilization of community leaders including Tong and Ban Chiefs and mothers' clubs, and family planning workers in their areas. Thus, this paper analyzes the current status of family planning and fertility behavior of urban low-income wives as a part of program evaluation. Also, this paper is based on an analysis of the 1984 Family Planning Survey data, which was conducted in July 1984 and responded to by 600 married women aged 15-44 in the low-income areas of the Daejon and Daegu cities. The survey data revealed that the contraceptive practice rate was 77.0%, which was much higher than 70.3% of the national practice rate in the same year, and the approval rate for the 1 or 2 children of the low-income areas was much higher than that of other urban areas. Based on the results of the analysis, the following recommendations are suggested for the better program implementation: 1) improvement of program management system for recruiting new acceptors in their 20s for birth spacing; 2) development and inducement of innovative incentive schemes and IEC activities for increasing the proportion of the 1 child families; and 3) strengthening the utilization of community resources including mothers' clubs.

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PubMed1993

Nepal launches new projects.

The CEDPA Nepal Country Office (NCO), directed by Mana Rana (WIM 5 and S&E 13), has launched an expanded leadership training program for women's NGOs and new service delivery projects under a 5-year grant extension from USAID. With additional support from the UNFPA, the NCO will undertake a new project with the Mothers' Club, a national women's NGO. The project will mobilize women and women's organizations to address grassroots needs. The CEDPA ACCESS Project recently funded the Nepal Red Cross and Family Planning Association of Nepal to begin community-based family planning projects. Trained volunteers will distribute nonclinical contraceptives from their homes, provide services through home visits, and refer clients to clinics. Nancy Russell, a nonprofit manager with 20 years of experience, has been appointed CEDPA resident coordinator for Nepal.

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PubMed1994

Association between maternal education and infant diarrhea in different household and community environments of Cebu, Philippines.

Maternal education is one of the strongest determinants of infant survival in developing countries, however, questions remain regarding the extent to which its effects vary as a function of contextual variables. In this study, a multi-level interactive model is used to assess whether the protective effect of maternal education on the risk of infant diarrhea is modified by three aspects of the mother's familial and community environment: household assets, community economic resources and the availability of mothers' clubs. 2484 study participants were interviewed in 1984 as part of the Cebu Longitudinal Infant Health and Nutrition Study. The findings suggest that the protective effect of maternal education on infant diarrhea varies according to the socio-economic environment in which the mother lives: maternal education protects against infant diarrhea in the more economically and socially advantaged communities but has no effect in the more disadvantaged communities. The results also indicate that the protective effect of maternal education is smaller in the wealthier households. These data suggest that improvement in maternal education level, alone, may not always have the expected beneficial effects on infant health. Corollary measures to improve access of mothers and children to basic community resources and efforts to help mothers be more effective in their various social roles may be necessary preconditions for higher levels of maternal education to result in improved infant health.

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