Observation

 

 This question was attempted by many candidates and their performance was very poor.  In part (a) majority of the candidates could not define maternal care, it was wrongly defined as the care the mother takes of his child.  In part (b)(i) candidates could not state health care services given to maternal health programme, they wrote wrong such as on women and human right organization instead of maternal health services and in (b)(ii) candidates also could health programme.  In part (c) candidates also could not state ways of improving the quality of diet.

The expected answers are as follows:

6 (a)  EXPLANATION OF MATERNAL CARE

• maternal care is the health service/safety measure/treatment provided women during
• pregnancy/conception, childbirth/delivery, and postnatal periods .

  (b)(i) HEALTH CARE SERVICES GIVEN IN MATERNAL HEALTH PROGRAMME

• checking health of mother-to-be and developing baby
• giving advice and treatment to pregnant women
• advice women on family planning/reproductive health
• provide food/nutritional education
• provide breast feeding education
• teaching women importance of good hygiene before and after child birth
• cancer screening
• immunization/vaccination .

                                                     

 (ii)      HEALTH CARE SERVICE GIVEN IN CHILD HEALTH PROGRAMME

• frequent examination of children by health personnel
• treatment of illness in children
• provision of school food programme
• prevention of infectious diseases/immunisation/vaccination                                 

(c)     WAYS OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF DIET

• government subsidize production of foodstuff.
• education/nutrition talk through campaign, mass media, propaganda on the ill effect of unbalanced diet
• Specific and clear governmental policy on national nutrition
• Boost/increase food production particularly protein from plant and animal by government
• Basic education on nutrition in primary and secondary institutions
• adult education classes for mothers on cooking of meal, planning and proper use of locally available food materials
• reduction of losses from spoilage through provision of modern storage, harvesting and preservation of food.

Eating balanced diet/food containing all classes of food.