Maternal and child health care work is based on group health care work, oriented to the grassroots, focusing on prevention, and providing public health services such as health education and preventive health care for women and children. While earnestly performing public health duties, we will carry out basic medical services closely related to the health of women and children. Strengthening maternal and child health care is of great significance for improving the health quality of the whole nation, promoting economic development and building a harmonious society.
Women and children account for two-thirds of China's total population, and their health is the foundation of the country's prosperity. The improvement of maternal and child health level is an important symbol of social civilization progress and health development, and the development of maternal and child health care is an important guarantee to improve people's living standards.
Measures to solve the health problems of women and children
Strengthen organizational leadership and system design. In the 1960s and 1970s, a nationwide survey was carried out to eliminate uterine prolapse and urinary fistula caused by old-fashioned delivery and postpartum premature delivery, which relieved the suffering of more than 7 million women. In view of the rapid population growth, the Party and the government have successively formulated various policies that are beneficial to family planning, promoted contraceptive services, and implemented free supply of contraceptives, effectively reducing induced abortion, promoting reproductive health protection and promoting people's health and social development.
Fully mobilize local enthusiasm. Strengthen target guidance, incorporate important indicators and policies and measures of maternal and child health into relevant major national plans, and strengthen the ideological attention and organizational leadership of local governments at all levels on maternal and child health work; Pay attention to solicit and listen to local opinions, absorb local experience and smooth top-down communication channels in policy formulation and project design; Give local governments more autonomy in project implementation and fund allocation, and emphasize the combination of reality, local conditions and classified guidance.
Highlight the grassroots. Grass-roots units are the main focus of maternal and child health work. Only through grass-roots units can maternal and child health services be finally implemented to every woman and child. Since the founding of New China, the construction of maternal and child health service network in urban and rural areas has been continuously strengthened, barefoot doctors system and rural primary health care system have been established, and the training of family midwives has been strengthened, resulting in a rapid decline in maternal and neonatal mortality.