Specific Health Protection Services in Antenatal Care Rendered by the Government of India

Authors

  • Syeda Ayeman Mazhar PG Scholar, Department of Tahaffuzi wa Samaji Tib (PSM), Faculty of Unani Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2589-2116
  • Rubi Anjum Professor & Chairperson, Department of Tahaffuzi wa Samaji Tib (PSM), Faculty of Unani Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, India.
  • Suboohi Mustafa PG Scholar, Department of Amraze Niswan wa Atfal, Faculty of Unani Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, India
  • Yumna Arif PG Scholar, Department of Amraze Niswan wa Atfal, Faculty of Unani Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, India.

Abstract

Background/ Problem Statement: Antenatal care (ANC) denotes the care offered by trained healthcare authorities all through the pregnancy to establish that both mother and baby be given excellent health facilities. Preventive services during antenatal care include ante-natal visits, prenatal advice, and specific health protection. Other components of antenatal care include mental preparation, family planning, and paediatric unit. Specific protection is basically primary prevention, aiming to reduce the incidence of disease, carried out by protection of health through personal and community efforts, such as facility of immunisations, safeguarding improved nutritional status, and getting rid of environmental health menaces directed for high-risk individuals and groups, achieved through public health programmes. In a country like India, there are still thousands of women who lack basic health amenities in their childbearing age, and specifically in pregnancy, particularly in rural and remote areas. This eventually increases the disease burden.
Objective: In the present paper, an attempt has been made to explore different facilities/ schemes rendered by the Government of India (GOI) to minimise the health risk of expecting mothers and newborns.
Methodology: Various literature comprising online databases including reputed journals related to public health services in community medicine specifically government schemes for pregnant women in remote areas to provide basic and necessary health care to them and their newborns were searched.
Discussion & Conclusion: Many schemes have been launched by the government of India to protect and safeguard the health of expecting mothers and their newborns with special attention to the high-risk mothers, in rural areas, those who are deprived of the basic and necessary amenities and to reduce the disease burden. The government of India has put forward many services for pregnant mothers, such as nutritional services, immunisation services, medicinal services, family welfare services, and educational services to ensure a healthy mother and child development for a healthy nation.

How to cite this article:
Mazhar SA, Anjum R, Mustafa S, Arif Y. Specific Health Protection Services in Antenatal Care Rendered by the Government of India. Int J Adv Res Gynaecol Obstet. 2023;1(1):39-42.

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2023-01-31