Maternal And Child Health Health Delivery Systems

Maternal and Child Health Florida Atlantic Universi HSA3111: Health Delivery Systems Aleshia King Spring 2016 Table of Contents Introduction Introduction According to Kotch, J. (2005), Maternal and Child Health is the professional and academic field that focuses on the determinants, mechanisms and systems that promote and maintain health, safety, well-being and appropriate development of children and their families in communities and societies, in order to enhance the future health and welfare of society and subsequent generations. Maternal and Child Health is unified and disturbed by numerous issues. Pregnant women, mothers, and children experience illness-causing mortality, from health related†¦show more content†¦Maternal deaths are related to factors such as sepsis, unsafe abortions, postpartum hemorrhaging, and disease causing complication during pregnancy, Preeclampsia and HIV to name a couple. In the writers opinion maternal fatalities major cause is due to mother’s lack of prenatal care, lack of access to care, and lack of knowledge about programs offered to pregnant woman. The pregnant women lack of care leads to Newborn complications such as premature births accounting for about 35% on newborn deaths. A child not receiving the proper nutrition increases the vulnerability to new disease and progression of disease such as HIV/AIDs, pneumonia, diarrhea, and etc. Access to Healthcare Kaiser Family Foundation (2015), believes that the key intervention that reduce the risk maternal mortality include access to skilled birth and emergency obstetric care. Pregnant women and children are able to receive Healthcare coverage through Employee Sponsored Health Insurance, Children Health Insurance Programs, and Medicare Programs Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance (Group Health Insurance) is healthcare coverage in which the employer is responsible for a significant portion of the healthcare expenses. Employer-sponsored plans typically are able to include a range of plan options from HMP and PPO Plan to additional coverage such as dental, life, short- and long-term disability. Maternal health coverage is one of the health benefits that must be