Systematic Maternal Health Care in Shanghai

Abstract

Our government pays much attention to the protection of mother’s and children’s health and considers it to be an important part of the people’s health services. Right after the liberation, we started to train primary health workers, established the three-grade maternity health network and popularized modern midwifery and scientific methods of bringing-up children, so as to decrease the incidence of major diseases (such as puerperal fever, neonatal tetanus, etc.) which threaten the life of the mother and child. As a result of these efforts, the mortality rates of both mother and child were reduced. In recent years, following the practice of family planning to reach the objective of decrease in birth rate, maternal health care has been enriched and perinatal health care has gradually evolved.