Maternal and Child HealthCare (MCH 2018)

Maternal health is the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum term. It incorporate the health care extent of family planning, preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care in order to protect a positive and fulfilling experience in most cases and reduce maternal morbidity and mortality in other cases. Whereas child care, child minding or day-care is the caring for and supervision of a child or children, usually ranging from age six weeks to age thirteen. Child care is the action or skill of looking after children by a day-care center, nannies, babysitter, teachers or other providers. Child care is a broad topic that covers a wide spectrum of professionals, institutions, contexts, activities, social and cultural conventions. Early child care is an equally important and often overlooked component of child development. Child care providers can be our children's first teachers, and therefore play an integral role in our systems of early childhood education. Quality care from a young age can have a huge impact on the future successes of children.