The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on Postpartum Care. Learners will be oriented to the postpartum period and discover why it is one of the most vulnerable times in a woman's reproductive life cycle. This course covers topics such as:

• The definition of the postpartum period, and the importance of postpartum care
   
• The three primary postpartum care programming models
   
• The elements of postpartum care, including self-care
  
  
• The care elements specific to the household and community, the peripheral facility and outreach services, as well as the district hospital
   
• The mother-baby dyad
  
  
• The policy implications of postpartum care integration 

This course includes recommendations on the timing of postpartum visits, and stresses the importance of involving primary family decision makers in care giving. It also looks at selected country examples of integrated postpartum care, where programs have achieved significant behavior changes.

See also the companion eLearning course: Essential Newborn Care.

Knowledge for Health Project, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International(FHI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), With IT Support from Google.

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