This shows that pre natal care, especially intensive care for newly born babies, has improved drastically.

The reporter found in this confinement center that the nurses would check the newborn breastfeeding each day, and the professional nursing workers would provide the newborns with the careful nursing services, such as bathing and touching.

In February 2004, a National Seminar on Obstetric and Neonatal care was held to establish the Pact's strategic actions.

A common confinement center provided the services of newborn care, nutritious food, and postpartum reconstruction, etc.

In India, newborn health forms part of the national Reproductive and Child Health Program. In Ethiopia, newborn care is being incorporated into a new community based healthcare program.

(m) Distribution to target groups of 10 sets of educational material on safe reproductive health practices and newborn care

Protection within the meaning of this Law is provided through ensuring certain rights and forms of protection of children such as child supplement, special supplement, assistance in kind for a new born baby, and protection forms such as care and education for preschool children, rest and recreation of chidden and other forms of protection.

The greatest risk of death is at the beginning of life three quarters of all neonatal deaths (three million) occur within one week of birth, and at least one million babies die on their first day of life, many at home without any formal healthcare. Moreover, almost 40 of all child deaths occur in the neonatal period, with Africa and South Asia accounting for two thirds of the total.

The additional cost of maintaining essential newborn health interventions at 90 coverage in the 75 countries with the highest mortality is estimated to be a mere 4.1billion per year. This would supplement current spending of 2 billion, only about 30 of which is for interventions specifically aimed at newborns, while the majority is for interventions that also benefit mothers and older children.

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To improve the care of children and reduce early orphanhood.

How about the newborn baby?

81. The new Protection of Children and Young Persons Act.

Where is this new nurse's aide I've been hearing about?

It had established maternal and infant care centres, while a Higher Committee for Childhood oversaw all matters related to the child, and was responsible for policies and programmes to ensure the well being and health of children.

The new Protection of Children and Young Persons Act, No. 58 of 1992, came into force on 1 January 1993, replacing the older Protection of Children and Young Persons Act of 1966.

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It was suggested that the focus on child protection should enhance the capacity of UNICEF to better respond to emerging priorities.

Elder care, child care, already much bigger employers than cars.

J. Lowy, EPA raises estimate of newborns exposed to mercury, Scripps Howard News Service, February 4, 2004.

Yes, I can see how much you've been worrying. Seven operations today, baby.

These positive results are attributable partly to the work done under the Child Survival project of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (MSPAS) and partly to the institutional implementation of health care programmes.

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Approximately 70 per cent of infant deaths occur in the neonatal period.

Currently, an alarming number of newborns die because of infection, mothers failure to breastfeed during the first days, or other preventable causes. By training community health workers, the NRHM has achieved a marked reduction in newborn deaths in Indian villages.

Table 31. Biological orphans under court protection

The care doesn't stop when the baby's born we deal with the ongoing health of the mother and baby, ensuring that they live healthy, successful lives.

(b) To ensure a continuum of care from pregnancy through childhood, recognizing that maternal, newborn and child health are inseparable and interdependent, and that the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals must be based on a strong commitment to the rights of women, children and adolescents

To make that possible, it was vital to build a future in which the well being of children would be always kept in mind and they would be protected from physical and psychological harm.

A fourth undertaking is to boost interaction and cooperation between government departments and NGOs and increase the information flow to society at large so as to reduce the incidence of trafficking by striving resolutely to combat and prevent it.

The rationale behind the criteria was based on, in particular, the need to strengthen the management of existing marine and coastal specially protected areas (SPAs) and to establish new SPAs covering the most critical marine habitats and ecosystems of the region.

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Neonatal mortality during the first month of life

(a) A continuation and strengthening of its efforts to ensure that all children have access to basic health care services

Primary prevention approaches include public awareness campaigns, perinatal and pre school developmental interventions, in school education, youth programmes and drug testing.

The change also concerns the weight of infants at birth the previously used definition allowed only infants with a birth weight of at least 601 g to be included in the statistics the current definition provides for a weight of about 500 g.

The majority of the children were born outside wedlock (83.3 percent).

Protect his fortune, he's only a child.

Most maternal, newborn and child deaths occur in poor communities.

While in 1945 a little less than half the total number of births were either attended by field midwives or took place in hospitals and nursing homes, by 1993 around 97.7 per cent of births were attended by health personnel.

(a) Strengthen the capacity of families to protect and care for orphans and vulnerable children by prolonging the lives of parents and providing economic, psychosocial and other support

The most important of them are the social insurance benefits for workers maternity leave and allowance, confinement allowance, child care leave and allowance, care leave and allowance.