A: Atención (Care)
MA: Materna (Maternal)
NE: Neonatal (Neonatal)
C: Crecimiento (Growth)
E: Estimulación Temprana (Early Stimulation)
Description
The strategy consists of the development of connectivity and the use of high technology for the benefit of maternal and child health.
Objectives
The purpose of this strategy is to implement an innovative prevention, promotion and care model based on network connectivity and technology innovation aimed at a significant improvement of health care and a reduction of maternal and child mortality. As we go about fulfilling the Millenium Development Goals, we specifically want to see the impact of this strategy expressed as a reasonable decrease of maternal and child deaths. The strategy also anticipates an added value in the design of an innovating public health model and methodology that may be replicable and sustainable.
The AMANECE Model considers systematic actions from both public and private health sectors in a country, state, district or region, from pre-fertilization to fertilization periods in women, labor and birth, as well as from the first few days of life of the newborn up to five years of age. These actions are translated into preventive and health care measures that future mothers, pregnant women, newborns and children will receive at the community and health units from different health care levels that participate in the project at any time they may be required.
This Model is founded on six elements that share a common center and starting point: women as mothers.
In the AMANECE Model women are the center of the Project and they are viewed as the starting point since it is they who look after health to create a favorable environment for their off-springs. They are the ones who determine the first steps of their off-spring’s diet, emotional state and physical health. Thus, the emphasis of the Model aims at encouraging women to take responsibility of their power as creators of healthy conditions. AMANECE incorporates this perception of women not as an object of care, but rather as the subject and main player in each of their mother process stages.
Working with macro-processes involves the achievement of synchrony and the inclusion of all stakeholders around a specific problem, which will lead to concrete problem-management solutions, the generation of learning and the possibility of generalizing this learning to other areas or macro-processes.
The enhancement of health care is focused on:
- The improvement of medical administrative process
- The equipment and key instrumentation for an enhancement of macro-processes
- Medical training in critical cases
Mobile telephones will be used for timely detection of women with significant risks so that the specialist may maintain communication and direct follow-up of these women and enable their timely transport to an equipped health unit for the best possible obstetric and newborn care.
- The health of the pregnant woman has a direct impact on the product’s development. A problem at this stage may have severe consequences in the neonate, thus, care efforts are proposed to be focused on them as a protective factor for the newborn.
- In order to attain emergency communication, traditional midwives and community promoters will receive limited credit cell phones for emergency calls so that they may notify the occurrence of obstetric events and their complications and, in like manner, request immediate care for newborns with birth defects or malnourished infant/child. This system will allow stakeholders to receive advice from experts regarding the procedures they should follow, with two-way messages that health community aids may be capable of understanding according to their cultural and training background.
Amanece Strategy
