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4 Coordinating Investments in Children from a Policy Perspective
4 Coordinating Investments in Children from a Policy Perspective
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The China Women's Development Foundation has demonstrated how a single organization can provide a wide range of coordinated and integrated services for children and their mothers. In Southeast Asia, national policies to include children with special needs in mainstream schools vary from country to country, but progress is widespread.
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It also provides water services for mothers and children and supports safe drinking water projects because they lack safe drinking water in many Chinese regions, Guo observed. A project known as Mother's Health Express provides targeted medical care in poor areas.
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INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Yasmin Hussain, director of the Regional Center for Special Education for the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization, discussed inclusive education in 10 countries of Southeast Asia from Myanmar to Indonesia. Policies in these countries have been influenced by a wide variety of policy conferences and documents calling for greater inclusion of children with special needs in regular classrooms, including the Salamanca Statement, the Dakar World Education Forum, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Declaration of the Rights of Disabled Persons, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the World Conference on Education for All, the Year of Special Needs in the Classroom, and the World Conference on Special Needs Education.
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The Ministry of Education in the Philippines plays a prominent role in ensuring that inclusive education takes place in mainstreamed schools and provides support systems for schools. In Singapore, the education system embraces the concept of inclusion for students with special education needs, and the Ministry of Education of Singapore has successfully placed the majority of students with such needs in inclusive schools, said Hussain.
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Such practices include failing to check fetal heart rates, not using partographs, unnecessary induction of delivery, unnecessary cesarean deliveries, immediate cord clamping, separation from the mother, and not initiating early exclusive breastfeeding. A clinical protocol review in seven Western Pacific countries revealed that the newborn care compo
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"There is a lot of work that we can do at the health facility level." For example, in response to a question, Sobel highlighted the important link between poor intrauterine growth and disabilities. He explained that this link is often a challenging one to make clear as "most people intuitively know that the risk of death and the risk of bad outcomes with low birthweight babies is very high as compared to those who have normal weight," but they do not understand the technical ways in which these two health markers are connected.
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"Many countries have adapted it into their local language and into local situations." Mechanisms were also established to ensure that professional associations would help implement early essential newborn care, and national planning tools were developed based on a situation analysis in each country. A Health Facility Strengthening Guide and a Coaching Session Facilitator Guide provided support for training and information dissemination.
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