Journal PaperPaper TitleImplementation of Essential Intrapartum and Newborn Care among Health Care ProvidersAbstractThe Department of Health issued Administrative Order No. 2009-0025 for the nationwide adoption of newpolicies and protocol on Essential Intrapartum Newborn Care (EINC), an evidence-based systematic intervention for safeand quality maternal and newborn care services to reduce increasing maternal and newborn mortality rate. Adoption of thepolicy was a challenge to health care providers who were used to the familiar old ways of performing childbirth and newborncare. This study unveiled the health care providers’ reported implementation of the EINC protocol among governmentbirthing facilities in the Province of Bukidnon. There were 236 respondents from 30 government birthing facilities of the 21municipalities in the province of Bukidnon.
A questionnaire was used to determine the level of compliance, and stimulantsand barriers in the implementation of EINC among the birth attendants. It was found that the over-all self-reported level ofcompliance to EINC protocol is high.
Immediate Newborn Care
Compliance levels were discussed stratified in four program parameters as well asstimulus and barriers to the program implementation. Recommendations directed to the health department to address thebarriers reported by the implementors.Keywords - Health programs, Maternal and Child Health, Program ComplianceAuthor - Pilar V. Domagsang, Donald G. Camatura, Karl Jay G.
What Is Newborn Care?
Guinitaran, Lorelyn P.