Jeonnam Province Launches Customized Health Management Service for Families with Newborns

Selected for the 'Early Life Health Management Pilot Project'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Jeonnam Province (Governor Kim Young-rok) announced on the 24th that it has recently been selected for the Ministry of Health and Welfare's 'Early Life Health Management Pilot Project' and will begin full-scale customized services starting next month.

The Early Life Health Management Pilot Project selected 20 locations nationwide, and Jeonnam Province is the only region in Honam where two cities/counties, Hwasun-gun and Haenam-gun, have been selected and are preparing for implementation.

Households with pregnant women and infants under the age of 2 will receive customized health management services such as preventive health care necessary for pregnancy and childbirth, infant development counseling, and parenting education through visits by professional personnel such as nurses, divided into 'one-time visits' and 'continuous visits.'

The 'one-time visit' targets pregnant women and provides consultation services within 4 weeks after childbirth, including maternal health management, infant health development evaluation, breastfeeding methods, postpartum depression assessment, and addressing mothers' questions or difficulties in parenting.

The 'continuous visits' are conducted at least 25 times from before childbirth until the child turns 2 years old, targeting health-vulnerable families requiring intensive care due to prenatal and postnatal depression.

They can receive professional customized health management services such as maternal mental health care and child development parent education.

Pregnant women wishing to receive services in the pilot project area can apply for the service after registering as pregnant women at the public health center. For more details, contact the public health center in your jurisdiction.

Yoon Yeon-hwa, Jeonnam Province Population and Youth Policy Officer, said, "We hope this will be an opportunity to establish a professional health management system for pregnant women and infants before and after childbirth and create a pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting-friendly environment suited to the characteristics of rural fishing villages," adding, "We will gradually expand the project to all cities and counties in the province to promote the health of mothers and infants."

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