CHILD SURVIVAL AND SAFE MOTHERHOOD PROGRAM (CSSM) (CHILD HEALTH NURSING)
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Updated 2024
INTRODUCTION
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- CSSM program launched on 20th
August 1992 - CSSM program is directed at achieving
9 of the 17 goals of National Health Policy (1983) which are related to
maternal and child health
OBJECTIVES OF CSSM
- Giving strength to universal
immunization program - Giving continual ORT to children
below 5 years of age against respiratory infections - Protect children below 3 years of age
against blindness caused by deficiency of vitamin A - Providing iron and folic acid tablets
to pregnant mothers, lactating mothers and children below 5 years of age to
protect them against malnutritional anemia - To bring improvement in the care of
infants and mothers at community level
ACTIVITIES OF CSSM
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Children
- Essential newborn care
- Immunization
- Appropriate management of diarrhea
- Appropriate management for acute
respiratory infections - Vitamin “A” prophylaxis
Mother
- Immunization
- Prevention and treatment of anemia
- Antenatal care and early
identification of maternal complications - Deliveries by trained personnel
- Promotional of institutional
deliveries - Management of obstetric emergencies
- Birth spacing
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GOALS OF CSSM
- To decrease IMR, MMR and under five
mortality rate - Polio eradication by 2000 AD
- Neonatal tetanus elimination by 1995
- Measles prevention
- Diarrhea – prevention of 70% deaths
and 25% cases by 2000 AD - Acute respiratory infections (ARI),
prevention of 40% deaths by 2000 AD
COMPONENTS OF CSSM – 3E’S
- Essential maternal care
- Early identification of complications
- Emergency obstetric care
STRATEGIES OF CSSM
- To improve maternal care and promote
birth spacing - To train medical and other health
personnel in essential newborn care - To use of low cost effective and
locally available equipment for newborn - To provide basic facilities for care
for low birth weight and sick newborns in first referral units and district
hospitals - Create awareness about essential
newborn care among healthcare providers, pregnant women and mother of the
newborns
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