10 Essential MCH Services

Through its four Sections and State/Community Partnerships
BFH engages in Ten Essential Public Health Services to Promote
Maternal and Child Health in Kansas

1. Assessment and monitoring of maternal and child health status to identify and address problems.
2. Diagnosis and investigation of health problems and health hazards affecting women, children and youth.
3. Information and education to the public and families about maternal and child health issues.
4. Mobilizing community partnerships between policy makers, health care providers, families, the general public, and others to identify and solve maternal and child health problems.
5. Providing leadership for priority setting, planning, and policy development to support community efforts to assure the health of women, children, youth, and their families.
6. Promotion and enforcement of legal requirements that protect the health and safety of women, children, and youth, and ensuring public accountability for their well-being.
7. Linking women, children and youth to health and other community and family services and assure quality systems of care.
8. Assuring the capacity and competency of the public health and personal health work force to effectively address maternal and child health needs.
9. Evaluation of the effectiveness, accessibility and quality of personal health and population-based maternal and child health services.
10. Support for research and demonstrations to gain new insights and innovative solutions to maternal and child health related problems.