Community Leaders Improved health Community Promote/Support Support early and Support all (in general terms, infrastructure surveillance of delivery with exclusive adequate advocacy would (e.g., cash support pregnant women skilled breastfeeding practices, i.e., need to be done for transport to helps to save attendants Support timely Support exclusive with them to health facility mothers and essential and continued support all during deliveries, children immunizations for breastfeeding adequate practices) good roads, Provide the children Support adequate transportation, resources to complementary water and support BPCR feeding practices sanitation Support timely services) in the essential community leads immunizations for to saving mothers children and children Support household Support hygiene practices environmental Support timely hygiene care seeking for Support birth danger signs spacing and family planning; act against child marriage and adolescent pregnancy Policymakers Policies to delay age of marriage and keep girls in school Promote maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition as human rights Promote maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition as vital economic and social investments Provide human and material resources to support maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition promotion and services Ensure the availability and accessibility of essential commodities (e.g., vaccines) at the central, district, and village levels Religious Leaders Discuss MNCH&N recommended practices with your religious groups Support timely essential immunizations and other adequate health and nutrition practices for children
Community Leaders (in general terms, advocacy would need to be done with them to support all adequate practices) Improved health infrastructure (e.g., cash support for transport to health facility during deliveries, good roads, transportation, water and sanitation services) in the community leads to saving mothers and children Support environmental hygiene Support birth spacing and family planning; act against child marriage and adolescent pregnancy Community surveillance of pregnant women helps to save mothers and children Provide the resources to support BPCR Promote/Support delivery with skilled attendants Support early and exclusive breastfeeding Support timely essential immunizations for children Support all adequate practices, i.e., Support exclusive and continued breastfeeding Support adequate complementary feeding practices Support timely essential immunizations for children Support household hygiene practices Support timely care seeking for danger signs Policymakers Policies to delay age of marriage and keep girls in school Promote maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition as human rights Promote maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition as vital economic and social investments Provide human and material resources to support maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition promotion and services Ensure the availability and accessibility of essential commodities (e.g., vaccines) at the central, district, and village levels Religious Leaders Discuss MNCH&N recommended practices with your religious groups Support timely essential immunizations and other adequate health and nutrition practices for children
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