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Husband’s Involvement In Ante-natal Care
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The ability to provide special care for women during pregnancy trough
social or public health care or services was a relatively late
development in modern obstetrics. In the contemporary medical sociology,
there’s a clamour for increasing recognition of men’s attitudes and
behaviours to their partner’s pregnancy to influence the outcome of
pregnancy and the couple’s risk of HIV/STDCI as crucial important
project. Within sexual and reproduction health. During the 80’s there
was a tacit, if gradual, recognition with health promotion that men were
an important factor in the health of women and socialization process of
children.
Picking from the world summit for children in (1990) the
role of men in ante-natal clinic (ANC) services play faster couple
communication and HIV prevention behaviours among pregnant women and
gives focus of an intervention. Men’s participation in ante-natal
provides an opportunity to supply information on birth spacing, which is
recognized as an important factor in improving in front several.
Better
understanding of fetal growth and development and its’ relationship to
the mother’s health has resulted in increased attention to the potential
of ante-natal care as an intervention to improve both material and
newborn health. tetanud immunization during pregnancy can be life-saving
for both mother and infact when supply the information during
development of the pregnancy. The prevention and treatment of malaria
among pregnant women, management of aneamia during pregnancy and
treatment of STD’s can significantly improve total outcomes and improve
maternal health. It therefore assented that address outcome as of such
as birth weight can be reduced trough a compilation of intervention to
improve women’s nutritional status and present infections (malaria
STD(I)s) during pregnancy. More recently, the potential of men in the
ante-natal period is an entry point of HIV prevention and care, in
particular for prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child has
led to renewed interest in process to and use of ante-natal care
services. There is now broad agreement that the focus of men in
ante-natal care interventions should be on improving material health;
this being both as end in itself and necessary of improving the health
and survival of infacts.
Baylies, C and Bujra J. (2000) asserted that
there is a potential of care of men during the ante-natal period to
improve a range of health outcomes for women and children, the world
summit for children in 1990 adopted ante-natal care as a specific goal,
namely “access by all pregnant women to prenatal care, trained
attendants. During children birth and referral facilities for high risk
pregnancies and obstetric emergencies similar aims have been voiced in
other major inter-national care, including the international conference
on population and development in 1994, the fourth world conference on
women in 1995, their five-year follow-up evaluations of process, and the
United Nations General Assembly special session on children in 2002.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Many elements of ante-natal care, such as routine monitoring of height
and weight gain, have not been shown to have any impact in reducing the
risk of senor complication and material deaths despite men’s involvement
in ante-natal care. The risk approach, adopted as a way of identifying
which women are most shown to have only limited effectiveness: most
women who go on to develop life threatening complications had no
apparent risk factors; those identified as being at risk generally end
up with uneventful deliveries. Other ante-natal interventions, such as
detection and treatment of anemia ad the management of sexually
transmitted diseases or infection (STD(I)s), offer improvements in
health without necessarily any equivalent reduction in the risk of
material death (Smith, 1998) Men not only acted as gatekeeper
restricting women and children’s access to health services nut also
through abuse or neglect, men’s actions had direct bearing on the health
of their partners and their children (Gallen et al, 1986).
The
reality is that despite the considerable rhetoric surrounding men’s
involvement, men are still seldom targeted and there are very few
evaluations of intervention in sexual and reproductive health that
address issues from a focal point of maxulinity, or coin an
understanding of men’s needs. The involvement of men in ante-natal care
and its corresponding effect on women reproductive health.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated men involvement in ante-natal care using Ikeja bag Local Government as a study. It was designed to establish the impact of min in ante-natal related issues and its corresponding effect on infant development. Relevant literature and theories related to this study were usedBoth primary and secondary data were used. The primary data include a well structured questionnaire of 200 administered to respondents in Ikeja Local Government in Lagos State through stratified and accid ... Continue reading---
