Textbooks

1. Volumes 8, 10, 11 of Strengthening Maternity and Child Hygiene Care and Family Planning, Basic Level Unit
2. Comprehensive Items of Maternity and Child Hygiene, A Handbook of Health and Hygiene Education in Rural Areas, Pediatrics Training Text-book. (used previous in a World Bank-funded program).

Course material

1. Basic knowledge of maternity and childbirth
2. Application of above to conditions in rural areas
3. Basics of hygiene
4. Care of pregnant women
5. How to identify dangerous conditions during pregnancy and lying-in
6. Care before and after parturition
7. Family planning
8. How to breast-feed
9. How to care for a newborn
10. How to care for older babies
11. Practical treatment and family nursing for acute respiratory tract infection in children
12. Practical treatment and family nursing for children’s diarrhea
13. Inoculations
14. How to diagnose and treat common children’s illnesses such as high fever, convulsions, and poisoning.

Training method

1. Lecture
2. Discussion
3. Performance
4. Demonstration
5. Practice