11^th European Epidemiology and Public Health Congress

Maternal and Child Health

Maternal and child health is the health of the women during and  post-operative, pregnancy,  childbirth, and the post-partum period. It encloses the health care dimensions of family planning, preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care experience, in most cases, and reduce maternal morbidity and mortality, in other cases. Maternal, fetal and neonatal mortality is more in low-income compared to high-income countries due to poor health systems access as well as utilization of health services.