Preface

This edited volume is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, concerning the latest developments within the maternal and child health matters around the world field of study. The book includes scholarly contributions by various authors and has been edited by a group of medical experts.

Each contribution comes as a separate chapter complete in itself but directly related to the book's topics and objectives.

There are 7 chapters in this book and they are as follows:

CHAPTER 1: The Interrelation of the Mother's Health Status with the State of Health of First- and Second-Year-Old Children

CHAPTER 2: Public Policies for Promotion of Maternal-Infant Health in Brazil: Some Experiences with Adolescent Mothers in São Paulo

CHAPTER 3: Cytokines and Maternal Omega-3 LCPUFAs Supplementation

CHAPTER 4: Correlates of Caesarean Section Delivery in West Bengal, India: An Analysis Based on DLHS-3

CHAPTER 5: Safe Childbirth and Motherhood in African Great Lakes Region: External Pelvimetry in Nulliparae and Scheduled Caesarean Section

CHAPTER 6: Quality Care for Mothers and Newborns at Birth in Mexico

CHAPTER 7: Adolescents Romantic Relationship: Dynamics of Parent-Child Relationship from India

The target audience comprises scholars and specialists in the field.

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**Chapter 1**

**Abstract**

the better the child's health is.

**1. Introduction**

perinatal pathology, encephalopathy, Russia

The Interrelation of the Mother's

We evaluated the state of health of the mother and child at birth, and the probability of the diagnosis of cancelation in the child at the end of the second year of life. The sample consisted of 100 mother-child dyads. The complex assessment of the children's health status was based on the individual medical records. Mothers filled the questionnaire evaluating the mother's relation to her child during the first 2 years of life, and the questionnaire aimed at assessing the emotional intelligence level. Almost all the children at birth have one or the other diagnosis. There is a positive connection between the number of the diagnoses in the first- and second-year-old children during their stay in the maternity ward and perinatal pathology factors of the mother. But by the end of the second year of life in 60% of the children, these diagnoses were canceled. The healthier the mother, the more positive the prognosis with regard to the child's health within the first 2 years of living is. Positive prognosis with regard to the first-year-old children's health depends upon the acceptance of the child by the mother: the higher the value on the scale of acceptance-nonacceptance is,

**Keywords:** dyad mother-child, health, emotional intelligence, attachment,

Man's health is an essential condition of his/her wellbeing, self-fulfillment and an active creation [1, 2]. However, throughout the world, there is a great number of people suffering from different diseases. A part of them is connected with the process of gestating and bearing a child, many of them are a result of poverty, and some others are a consequence of aging [3]. Nowadays, many scientists define the reason for hereditary disease growth as a result of that mankind has gone out of control of natural selection. For instance, at the end of the nineteenth century in Russia, 85% of infants who were born in summer died [4]. The reason for most children's death was intestinal infections and mothers' employment in agricultural works that decreased their care for the child. At present, infant mortality has fallen, but a lot of diseases have emerged. They may be an effect during pregnancy, some chronic diseases have exacerbates in the mother, or she has had infectious diseases, experienced the acute stress, etc. The mother for the child is a natural environment

Health Status with the State of

Health of First- and Second-

Year-Old Children

*Elena Nikolaeva and Vera Merenkova*
