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Oct 03 2020
HEALTHCARE
“MATERNAL HEALTH AND EARLY NEONATAL HEALTH ARE STRONGLY INTER-RELATED”
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Critically Discussing the Given Statement with Examples 3
Factors affecting Maternal Health 3
Factors Affecting Early Neonatal Health 5
Inter-relation between the Maternal and Early Neonatal Health 6
Strategies and Programs to Adopt for Improving the Status of Neonates and Mothers 6
Strategies and Programs for Improving Maternal Health 6
Strategies and Programs for Improving Early Neonatal Health 7
Conclusion 8
References 10
Introduction
Neonates derive their nutrition from their mothers’ milk and during the early stages of life; the essential nutrients are supplied in the form of milk and therefore, the mothers’ health regulates the heath of neonates directly. During early neonatal state, the level of immunity of the neonates remains low and therefore, the neonates prove to be vulnerable to diseases, infections and harm. As neonates’ stay in close proximity with the mothers, they get affected by any illness, the mother have acquired or developed. In the cu
ent essay, the strong relationship between a neonate and the mother is discussed in the context of their health and proper strategies are offered to benefit both the mothers and the neonates to acquire a high health standard.
Critically Discussing the Given Statement with Examples
Factors affecting Maternal Health
Starting with the social factors it can be seen that in developed countries childbirth is considered a very significant moment in life, as in such societies people take child on considerably distant intervals. As stated by Porat-Zyman et al. (2018), in societies where childbirth is prioritized, the mother, i
espective of her professional career or family life is offered much more time to recover from the entire ordeal, which is both mentally and physically exhausting. Opposite to that of developing and highly populated country, childbirth is more of a frequent affair and therefore, the society does not impose much importance to the health of the mother. As mentioned by Gaunt (2018), along with less prioritization of mother’s health, developing societies focus on the health of the neonate and lack the understanding of the need of mothers’ health.
Cultural factor regulates the daily practices, individual perspective of life, religious belief, food habit and many more aspects that are vital. As identified by Ramani et al. (2018), cultural aspect determines the lifestyle a mother follows her childbirth, as the family members, cultural background force her to do things that might not be aligned with the prescribed set of actions suggested by medical practitioners. Mothers are often seen taking part in ceremonies, which creates stress on her body. As identified by Gill et al. (2018), cultural practices often include the consumption of food, which lacks nutrition values are susceptible to infections.
The economic condition of the family, in which a person has attained the status of motherhood, determines the standard of her health. Economic condition of a country determines the buying capacity of the citizens at the time of purchasing foods, medicines and availing care services that are needed during early motherhood. As noted by DeJesus et al. (2018), doctors prescribe that mothers consume foods that are low in fat content, have more caloric values and water for replenishing the dehydration that occurs post-delivery. During pregnancy women put on weight with the sole aim to provide the child in the womb ample amount of nutrition, however, after delivery of the child, the mother needs to loss her weight to get fit again; therefore, fat containing foods are not recommended (Women Health, 2018). Mothers are also suggested to eat beef, ham, and mutton to gain energy. As affirmed by Mu
ay et al. (2018), despite the suggestions of the medical practitioners, the mothers resort to normal foods if the economic condition of the family is not able to afford prescribed diet.
The combined impact of economic, social and cultural aspects generates psychological factor that regulates her health after childbirth largely. As assessed by Gopichandran et al. (2018), in certain societies, when a child is born the gender of the child determines the worth of the mothers and therefore, giving birth a child, which has opposite sex in comparison to the expectation of the family, the mother gets psychologically upset, which impacts her appetite and ultimately her health. The male dominated societies expects women to take care of the household even after her childbirth, which psychologically degrades the worth of a mother and she gradually becomes upset about her motherhood, affecting her perspective towards her child, and self-esteem.
Figure 1: Factors Affecting Maternal Health
(Source: Gopichandran et al. 2018, p.109)
Factors Affecting Early Neonatal Health
The supply of the nutrition is a prime factor that affects the early neonatal health. As comprehended by Osman et al. (2018), neonates develop their immunity from the nutrition they get and as the only source of nutrition remains the
east milk, the level of nutrients available in it determines the degree of immunity development and ultimately the health standard achieved. Contrasting to the presented view, Zein et al. (2018) argued that neonatal health is a matter of genetic legacy, where parents with low immunity give birth to a child that has low immunity as well and although nutrient in the mother’s milk would help in developing immunity in the early stages of neonatal development.
The economic condition affects the health of neonates. The economic condition determines the degree of hygiene a family can afford for its newborn baby. As seen in the cases of poor countries, communities and families, the cradles, in which neonates are kept do not offer much hygiene and often lead to infections as the neonate remain in wet diapers, unnoticed by the mother. As stated by Muto et al. (2018), economic condition not only determines the purchasing of products that maintain hygiene, such as diapers, wipes, baby soaps, anti-septic creams, it also gives the ability to buy foods, the nutrients, of which transfers to the...