Child Counselling Therapy

 

Child health : Sri Lankan condition

Child health is a state of physical, mental, social, intellectual and emotional well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Healthy children live in families, environments, and communities that provide them with the opportunity to reach their fullest developmental potential.

The care and treatment of children consider under child health. It is the purview of pediatrics, which became a medical specialty in the mid-nineteenth century. Before that time the care and treatment of childhood diseases were included within such areas as general medicine, obstetrics, and midwifery.

SRI Lanka, being promoted as a middle-income country which has achieved significant gains in the area of human development. A dominant feature of the health policy in Sri Lanka has been the diffusion of health services throughout the country, which provides institutional and domiciliary care to women and children. It is significant that the system of Maternal and children health (MCH) services has evolved as a part of the general health services, which has helped the development of a comprehensive, network for maternal and child health service throughout the country.

Though in South East Asia Region, Sri Lanka’s infant and child mortality rates are considered low in comparison with international norms, they still rate high, especially when compared to some of the other social and health indicators in Sri Lanka. Hence, determinants need to be selectively identified and effectively addressed. The well-developed MCH infrastructure and the educational levels of the population provide the means to realistically target the main causes of death and morbidities in childhood.

The Expanded program of immunization (EPI) used to vaccine preventable disease which burden had come down along a decent path. Incidences of diseases like polio, measles, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and rubella declined rapidly over those years.

The implementation of school health programmer is the responsibility of both health and education ministries. The family health bureau is the focal point for the school and adolescent health programmer in the Ministry of health and the services are delivered through primary are responsible for implementation of the programmer in the decentralized system.