Open AccessAugmenting hospital support of maternal and child health care, Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Mohamed H. Baldo
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
eastern mediterranean health journal/eastern mediterranean health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1687-1634
pISSN - 1020-3397
DOI - 10.26719/1998.4.1.11
Subject(s) - trainer , medicine , nursing , child care , health care , program evaluation , child health , medical education , family medicine , public administration , computer science , political science , economics , programming language , economic growth
This paper describes the Saudi maternal and child health training programme [1988-1997] to augment hospital support of health centres. Maternal and child health trainer/trainee manuals were prepared, then implemented through 4-day trainers workshops and 2week trainee courses. Mid-term evaluation and follow-up demonstrated reasonable coverage and quality of training. Improved integration of care was reflected by a trainers attitude questionnaire and a trainees interview/observation questionnaire. To date, 589 trainers have been trained, three-quarters of them from hospitals. They in turn have trained about 7658 trainees, 93% of target. The programme is ongoing with continuous updating of content