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Maternal
and Child Health Handbook of Japan
English/74 pages/1999/920 Japanese yen
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The child health record
logbook, the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Handbook,
originally issued by the then Ministry of Health
and Welfare (MOHW) of the Japanese government in
1942 under the name of “Maternal Handbook”,
became a tool in the hands of each mother to assure
her baby’s health. This was an early form
of social mobilization for children’s survival
and development. Even before Japan’s remarkable
economic leap forward in the late 1950s and 1960s,
the major battles for Japanese children had been
won.
The role of health communication and education is
perhaps more central today than ever before. Health
knowledge and technologies exist to make dramatic
improvements in the health and wellbeing of children
at a very low cost if only families could be adequately
informed and motivated to act through the MCH Handbook.
This English version is translated by JOICFP under
the supervision of the now Ministry of Health, Labor
and Welfare (MOHLW). |
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