Maternal Child Health

The Maternal Child Health page provides information on reproductive age women, as well as early childhood issues

CCC Corner Highlights

Excess gestational weight gain: modifying fetal macrosomia risk
Alcohol Use Screening for FASD Prevention among a Cohort of American Indian Women
Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Update on Definitions and Interpretation

Image of a man woman and child The overall women and children’s health complex of sites provides information to Indian Health Service providers and consumers about American Indian and Alaska Native:

Access to care
Violence against Native women
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)
Substance abuse
Cardiovascular disease

. . . and other health issues.

Issues for the Adult Female

Cancer

Diabetes

The site provides a sounding board for current topics of interest, and provides access to Female Health ‘Systems’ and Public Health issues

This is a referral site to related material at

MCH Coordinators
Midwives
APN / PA(s)

Breastfeeding
Chief Clinical Consultants

Other areas of this I.H.S site

Clinical Information Resources
Immunizations / Vaccine Preventable Disease

Clinical Guidelines

Web locations outside of the I.H.S site

Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Other Helpful Links

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
Cochrane Library
UpToDate

Links followed by will take you to a site outside of MCH

Important MCH Topics

Image link: Takes you to Health Care Systems Home Page

Female Health Systems

Women's Health

Violence Against Native Women