Health promotion on Pregnancy and Childbirth

Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Pregnancy and Childbirth
Section 1: Health Topic
One of the objectives of the Healthy People 2020 goals is to increase the proportion of pregnant women who receive early and adequate prenatal care. Prenatal care is efficient when it starts early and then continued throughout the pregnancy (Hansen et al., 2020). It helps in preventing and addressing various health issues in both babies and their mothers. Interventions aimed at increasing access to healthcare can assist more women in getting the prenatal care that they require during pregnancy.
In the United States of America, expectant women are more likely to die during child delivery compared to expectant women in other developed countries (Bolin et al., 2015). As such, Healthy People 2030 is focused on preventing or at least reducing pregnancy complications as well as maternal deaths and thus help women to live healthy before, during, and after their pregnancy.
In some cases, women develop health issues during the start of their pregnancy, while others develop such issues during pregnancy (Henley et al., 2020). As such, there are various strategies which have been developed to help such women in adopting healthy habits as well as getting health care during and before pregnancy. Such health care helps in preventing complications before and during pregnancy. Further, such interventions have been formulated and implemented at the local, state, and national level to help in preventing unintended pregnancies; in turn, this helps in reducing negative healthcare outcomes for infants and women.
The significance of the problem to the patient and healthcare community
The health of women before, during, and after pregnancy can result in major impacts on the health and wellbeing of the infants. Women who get access to the recommended healthcare services before getting pregnant have higher chances of remaining healthy during their pregnancy and getting healthy babies (Finney Rutten et al., 2019). Strategies for helping expectant women to get access to medical healthcare and avoiding such risky behaviors as drinking alcohol or smoking also improve the healthcare outcomes for infants. Therefore, the aim of this objective is to ensure that this is achieve; ensuring the health of the women before, during, and after pregnancy, as well as the health and wellbeing of the infant.
Patient population
This objective targets women; this includes women who are about to become expectant, those who are already expectant, and those who have already delivered. As mentioned, the objective is concerned with the health and wellbeing of the mother before, during, and after pregnancy, as well as that of the infant. As such, the target population can also be extended to include infants as it is also concerned with their health. Further, the objective targets women in the United States of America as literature shows that expectant women in the country are more likely to die or develop health complications during pregnancy compared to women in other developed countries.
Section 2: National and State Goals
What is the National Healthy People 2020 goal for your objective?
The primary goal of the objective is to ensure access to prenatal care for all expectant women so as to enable them to get high quality obstetrical care which respects women and their traditional and culture health beliefs. Therefore, the goal supports mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing and health of expectant women before, during, and after pregnancy (Berge et al., 2020). In return, the care offered is expected to promote safe births as well as favorable healthcare outcomes for both the infant and the mother. This also implies that the primary objective of the goal is to ensure an increase in the number of expectant women who get access to early and adequate prenatal care. The objective is to increase the proportion to around 78%.
The objective also seeks to promote the health of expectant refugee women. Among such women, malnutrition is a major challenge that affects the early duration of resettlement as a result of lack of access to food in environments that are war-torn as well as refugee camp conditions (Talih & Huang, 2016). As such, there is a need for ongoing counseling, nutritional support, and early intervention among women in such conditions as a way of promoting physical activity and healthy food choices. In return, this will help in limiting cases of obesity onset and avoiding diabetes and microsomia during pregnancy. This will ensure that expectant women remain in good health before, during, and after pregnancy.
The objective also seeks to provide pelvic examination where it is deferred. This is common among women who have undergone been subjected to highest form of female genital cutting, known as infibulation, in cases where conducting a speculum is impossible or ext...