Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health: ANC/PNC, IMNCI, vaccines, growth monitoring, adolescent SRH
Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health is a clinic-to-community course that builds confident, guideline-aligned practice across the life-course. We start with maternal care—preconception counseling, antenatal risk assessment, anemia/HTN/diabetes in pregnancy, ultrasound basics and screening timelines, danger signs, and respectful maternity care. You’ll learn intrapartum essentials (triage, partograph, active management of third stage, PPH, preeclampsia/eclampsia, sepsis bundles) and immediate postpartum care, including contraception, lactation support, and mental-health screening. Each concept is unpacked with checklists, red-flag recognition, and case vignettes you can apply on ward rounds and in primary-care settings.
What you’ll learn
- Deliver evidence-based ANC/PNC: risk-stratify, counsel, screen for anemia/HTN/GDM, spot danger signs, and plan timely referral..
- Manage labor safely with partograph and AMTSL; prevent/treat PPH and eclampsia; apply sepsis bundles..
- Stabilize/resuscitate newborns (NRP, KMC, thermal care) and use IMNCI for pneumonia, diarrhea, and common childhood illnesses..
- Run immunization & growth clinics (catch-up, WHO Z-scores) and provide adolescent care: SRH counseling, anemia and mental-health screening..
Course Content
- Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health –> 5 lectures • 2hr 29min.
Requirements
Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health is a clinic-to-community course that builds confident, guideline-aligned practice across the life-course. We start with maternal care—preconception counseling, antenatal risk assessment, anemia/HTN/diabetes in pregnancy, ultrasound basics and screening timelines, danger signs, and respectful maternity care. You’ll learn intrapartum essentials (triage, partograph, active management of third stage, PPH, preeclampsia/eclampsia, sepsis bundles) and immediate postpartum care, including contraception, lactation support, and mental-health screening. Each concept is unpacked with checklists, red-flag recognition, and case vignettes you can apply on ward rounds and in primary-care settings.
Newborn and child health modules translate IMNCI/IMCI into everyday decisions: thermal care and KMC, neonatal resuscitation steps, sepsis recognition, jaundice thresholds, feeding problems, and growth faltering. You’ll practice vaccine scheduling and catch-up logic, interpret WHO growth charts and Z-scores, and manage common illnesses (pneumonia, diarrhea with ORS/zinc, wheeze, UTI) with clear escalation pathways. Nutrition is approached practically—early initiation of breastfeeding, IYCF, micronutrient supplementation, and community screening for acute malnutrition.
Adolescent health focuses on SRH counseling, menstrual disorders, acne and anemia, sports injuries, mental-health first steps, substance-use screening, and school-health approaches. We integrate safeguarding principles and confidential, age-appropriate communication. Throughout, you’ll use brief algorithms (ABC stabilization, sepsis six, dehydration plans A/B/C), partograph interpretation, APGAR/readiness to resuscitate, and vaccine hesitancy counseling. Short “pearls and pitfalls,” downloadable decision maps, and mini-quizzes keep learning focused and exam-ready.
By the end, you will be able to deliver evidence-based ANC/PNC, conduct safe labor and postpartum care, stabilize and refer sick newborns, apply IMNCI for under-fives, run efficient immunization and growth-monitoring clinics, and provide empathetic, confidential adolescent care—including contraception, mental-health screening, and prevention counseling. No prior public-health experience is required; we build from fundamentals to a practical toolkit you can use immediately in clinics, wards, and community programs.